Hiroshi Sugimoto Hiroshi Sugimoto is one of the best-known photographic artists of our time. His unique accomplishment in photography has been to contradict the medium's conventional task--namely, to record reality as precisely as possible. In Sugimoto's work, one is confronted with aformal reduction of images, by which he addresses fundamental questions of space and time, past and present, art and science, imagination and reality. "I was concerned with revealing an ancient stage of human memory through the medium of photography," he said in 2002. "Whether it is individual memory or the cultural memory of mankind itself, my work is about returning to the past and remembering...
