Sugimoto hiroshi biography of mahatma gandhi

Hiroshi Sugimoto has over the years become one of the most critically acclaimed artists and photographers of his generation. 

The Japanese photographer emerged in the ’80s as one of the best of a new generation of artists, including Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, and Jeff Wall, who transformed the medium of photography from a craft into a major art form.

Sugimoto’s works are made up of several series with each one being distinctive in theme. 

He is perhaps best known for his ongoing series of photographs of cinema interiors, of seascapes, and of dioramas from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. 

Using a large-format camera and often exposing his negatives for several hours, Sugimoto produces images with striking visual clarity that provide a mesmerizing meditation on the nature of time.

Sugimoto has spoken of his work as an expression of “time exposed”, or photographs that compress long expanses of time into a single frame, serving as a time