Hiroshi Sugimoto
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"Hiroshi Sugimoto", born on February 23, 1948, is a Japanese people/Japanese photographer currently dividing his time between Tokyo, Japan and New York City, United States. His catalogue is made up of a number of series, each having a distinct theme and similar attributes.

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Fame, it is not enjoyable.

I call it the New Material Research Laboratory, which means just the opposite - that it is about old techniques.

It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, ... Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.