Hiroshi Sugimoto - Black Box - 2016





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Hiroshi Sugimoto — Black Box, a hardback photography book of 202 pages in a 28.5 cm square format, published in 2016 by Fundación MAPFRE in Spanish as an Other edition, in very good condition.
Description from the seller
A great intellectual and connoisseur of Japanese artistic tradition and classical culture, his work contains a profound conceptual charge that leads the viewer to philosophical reflection. He rejects digital technology in favor of traditional methods in which life, death, and the passage of time underlie his work as central themes. Thus, he captures realities invisible to the human eye, revealing the blind spots in our experience of the world.
His works are characterized by great visual beauty and high technical virtuosity. The photographer has managed to reinterpret some of the most characteristic genres of classical photographic tradition, rejecting digital technology in favor of traditional methods. Overall, Hiroshi Sugimoto's work constitutes a profound meditation on the nature of perception, illusion, representation, life, and death.
Seller's Story
A great intellectual and connoisseur of Japanese artistic tradition and classical culture, his work contains a profound conceptual charge that leads the viewer to philosophical reflection. He rejects digital technology in favor of traditional methods in which life, death, and the passage of time underlie his work as central themes. Thus, he captures realities invisible to the human eye, revealing the blind spots in our experience of the world.
His works are characterized by great visual beauty and high technical virtuosity. The photographer has managed to reinterpret some of the most characteristic genres of classical photographic tradition, rejecting digital technology in favor of traditional methods. Overall, Hiroshi Sugimoto's work constitutes a profound meditation on the nature of perception, illusion, representation, life, and death.

