First edition of Nature Of Light by Hiroshi Sugimoto. First impression. Medium format hardback in fine condition.
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This catalog, produced in conjunction with Sugimotos exhibition at the Izu Photo Museum in Japan, documents this important artists recent investigations on the science and the presentation of photography. Documenting in detail Sugimotos architectural and landscape design of the new Izu Photo Museum, the book is at once a reinvention of the artist as architect, as it is an insightful guide to Sugimotos interest in the earliest beginnings of photography. Instigated by the urging of his friend, Pop Art icon Richard Hamilton, Sugimoto went to England to visit the museum of William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of the negative/positive photographic process. Finding common ground with Talbots polymathic interests in art and science, this book details images from Sugimotos Photogenic Drawing-Talbot pieces, where Sugimoto reinterprets 15 unprinted negatives from Talbots early studies, as well as 15 images from the artists Lightning Field series. Includes text by critic Minoru Shimizu.
