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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. also encountered his work , while staying at the Park Benesse House, Naoshima, Japan, for a night, two day stay….Feb 22-23rd, 2011. This museum-hotel was also designed by Tadao Ando “Park offers views of a verdant green lawn and the sparkling sea, with the mountains of Shikoku rising up in the distance against a bright blue sky.” Our room had a James Turrell picture (he designed works at the various spots/Chichu Art Museum and Museum and Art House Projects. The Sugimoto photos are in different sections of these four "hotel mueums"...some are outside, some are inside. To be enjoyed by guests. They're beautiful, haunting, and mesmeric. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Known for his long-exposure photographic series of empty movie theaters and driveins, seascapes, museum dioramas, and waxworks, Hiroshi Sugimoto has been turning his camera on international icons of twentieth-century architecture since 1997. His deliberately blurred and seemingly timeless photographs depict structures as diverse as the Empire State Building, Le Corbusier's Chapel de Nütre Dame du Haut, and Tadao Ando's Church of Light in Osaka. The resulting black-and-white photographs, shot distinctly out of focus and from unusual angles, are not attempts at documentation but rather evocation--meant to isolate the buildings from their contexts, allowing them to exist as dreamlike, uninhabited ideals. Among the other buildings represented in the series are Philippe Starck's Asahi Breweries, Fumihiko Maki's Fujisawa Municipal Gymnasium, the United Nations Building, the Chrysler Building, Giuseppi Terragni's Santelia Monument Como, the World Trade Center, Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building, Antonio Gaud''s Casa Batll* II, the 1922 Schindler House, and buildings by Frank Gehry, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many others in Europe, North America and Asia. No library descriptions found. |
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