Pacific Ocean, Iwate

Series Title: Time Exposed

1986, printed 1991

Kytoto Shoin Company

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Culture

Japan

Medium

offset lithograph

Measurements

Image: 23.9 x 30.9 cm (9 7/16 x 12 3/16 in.); Paper: 23.9 x 30.9 cm (9 7/16 x 12 3/16 in.); Mounted: 35.2 x 46.2 cm (13 7/8 x 18 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William and Margaret Lipscomb 2022.343.8

Edition

ed. 500

This artwork is known to be under copyright.

Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

“I was thinking,” said Hiroshi Sugimoto in describing the genesis of his Seascapes series, “what would be the most unchanged scene on the surface of the earth?”

Description

Hiroshi Sugimoto journeys to locations around the world to produce what appears, at first glance, to be essentially the same picture: the horizon falls exactly in the vertical center of the paper, dividing the page into equal segments of sky and water. There are no signs of human presence. Is the passage of time exposed when one has the opportunity, as in this portfolio, to examine 50 of Sugimoto’s Seascapes side by side? Or are time, movement, and difference obscured?