Signed; Hiroshi Sigimoto - Architecture - 2019

Hiroshi Sugimoto began the Architecture series in 1997, photographing the most important modernist buildings in the world; the aim is to “tell our era through architecture.” If rigor and mastery of technical means lie at the base of Sugimoto’s photographic style, in this series the artist reverses the entire process: “I pushed the focus of my camera to double infinity, obtaining an indistinct image... and I discovered that these superb architectures survive, however dissolved, the violence of blur.” By stripping each image of color and the sharpness of its lines, Hiroshi Sugimoto reduces buildings to their essential form. Among the most powerful examples of modernist architecture, Sugimoto photographed Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building, and Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim in Bilbao and in New York. ‘Architecture’ presents 90 photographs, 19 of which have never been published before. Excellent condition.