Hiroshi Sugimoto
Bass Strait, Table Cape

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Artist Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, born 1948)Japanese, born 1948

CultureJapanese

Titles

Bass Strait, Table Cape

Date1997

PlaceJapan

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 16 3/4 × 21 3/8 in. (42.5 × 54.4 cm)
Sheet: 18 3/4 × 23 3/4 in. (47.6 × 60.3 cm)
Mount: 19 3/4 × 25 in. (50.2 × 63.5 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Alexander K. McLanahan and the Louisa Stude Sarofim Charitable Trust, courtesy of Mary Lawrence Porter

Object number98.549

Current Location

The Caroline Wiess Law Building

107M Masterson Gallery

On view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionBeginning in 1980, Hiroshi Sugimoto traveled to distant corners of the world to photograph an uninterrupted expanse of sea and sky, always from a high vantage point. In every case, he framed the scene with the horizon perfectly bisecting his picture. In 1990 he began photo- graphing such scenes at night, often with moonlit exposures lasting hours. With flawless technique, Sugimoto’s seemingly simple photographs invite close examination and a meditative state of contemplation. “Every time I view the sea,” Sugimoto said, “I feel a calming sense of security, as if visiting my ancestral home; I embark on a voyage of seeing.”
Provenance[Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Tokyo]; purchased by MFAH, 1998.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Contemporary Art and Photography: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," MFAH, Upper Brown Pavilion, September 30, 2001 - February 3, 2002.

Exhibited: "Out of the Ordinary", MFAH, Lower Brown Corridor, December 13, 2004 - March 14, 2005
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Blind stamp, recto, bottom edge below image: Bass Strait Table Cape 1997 2/25 479

Signed in pencil, mount recto, lower right below sheet: Hiroshi Sugimoto

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