Hiroshi Sugimoto

Dedicated to some of the most important buildings of the 20th century, the photo exhibit opens its doors November 10 at the San Francisco MOMA. Known most of all for pictures of empty theaters, drive-ins, and sea landscapes, Sugimoto began to move his objective towards our century's architecture in 1997 in honor of the show organized by MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Los Angeles, “At the end of the century”. Since then, the Japanese photographer – New Yorker by adoption – has continued the route he began in an attempt to uncover the strength, the evocative force, and the sometimes enigmatic presence of architectural works. His photos are deliberately unfocused almost creating a “timeless” effect suitable for structures which could not be more different from each other: from the Empire State Building to the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut by Le Corbusier, to the Sant’Elia nursery by Terragni in Como, the Seagram Building by Mies van der Rohe in Chicago, Casa Battló by Antoni Gaudí in Barcelona, to the Asahi Breweries by Philippe Starck. thru 4 March 2001 SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fujisawa Municipal Gymnasium by Fumihiko Maki. Courtesy SFMOMA
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Fujisawa Municipal Gymnasium by Fumihiko Maki. Courtesy SFMOMA

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