id:			160197
accession number:	1998.116
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1998.116
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Hall of Thirty-three Bays, 1995. Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, 1948-). Gelatin silver print; image: 42.5 x 54.3 cm (16 3/4 x 21 3/8 in.); mounted: 48.9 x 63.7 cm (19 1/4 x 25 1/16 in.); paper: 47.6 x 60.3 cm (18 3/4 x 23 3/4 in.); matted: 63.5 x 81.3 cm (25 x 32 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. Donald F. Barney, Jr., in memory of Helen Greene (Mrs. A. Dean) Perry 1998.116

title:				Hall of Thirty-three Bays
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creation date:			1995
creation date earliest:		1995
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creditline:			Gift of Mr. Donald F. Barney, Jr., in memory of Helen Greene (Mrs. A. Dean) Perry
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culture:	Japan
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - Japanese 20th Century
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, 1948-)  - artist
Hiroshi Sugimoto Japanese, 1948-

The photographs of Hiroshi Sugimoto explore the connections between modern and ancient worlds. His early interior views of unpeopled cinemas, aglow with the eerie light of a projected film, suggest modern-day shrines. With similar intentions, he began to photograph in museums, particularly exhibits that featured life-size taxidermy animals and wax human figures.
	Since 1977 Sugimoto has traveled the world to photograph barren seascapes. These subjects, which have become his hallmark, are shown with subtle variations in time of day, horizon line, and weather conditions, achieving from a distance the effect of a color-field painting by encouraging viewers to lose themselves in the haze. The black-and-white format, however, is a continual reminder of both the actuality of the subject and its perilous environmental state.
	As a child, Sugimoto (born in Tokyo) took up photography with a fervor. He graduated from Saint Paul's University, Tokyo (B.A., 1970), leaving Japan for the United States to study at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles (B.F.A., 1972). In 1974 he moved to New York City, opening an antiques business before launching full-time into freelance photography.
	In addition to a one-person exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1989), Sugimoto has shown his work at the Palais des Beaux Arts, Charlerol, Belgium (1993), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1993, and tour), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1995). His awards include a New York Creative Artists Public Service Grant (1977) and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1980) and the National Endowment for the Arts (1982). Sugimoto lives in New York and Tokyo. A.W.
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measurements: Image: 42.5 x 54.3 cm (16 3/4 x 21 3/8 in.); Mounted: 48.9 x 63.7 cm (19 1/4 x 25 1/16 in.); Paper: 47.6 x 60.3 cm (18 3/4 x 23 3/4 in.); Matted: 63.5 x 81.3 cm (25 x 32 in.)
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	inscription:	written in pencil on recto of mount: "Hiroshi Sugimoto (signed)"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The History of Japanese Photography
	opening date:   2003-05-25T00:00:00
	<i>The History of Japanese Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 25-July 20, 2003).

	title:		The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2006-06-09T00:00:00
	<i>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Sims, Lowery Stokes. The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.
	page number: 	no. 140, p. 124, repr. p. 83 & p. 86.
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Acquires Major New Sculpture, Rare Chinese Prints, Contemporary Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs,” October 30, 1998, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
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	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4215

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