HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Horishi Sugimotos is a japenese photographer known for his minimalistic photography, gallery is the first one we explored his works properties are contrasts between black and white and mainly not of people, they’re mostly empty with large spaces of negative and positive. I don't find his work very engaging or exciting because there is no colour or anything that catches my eye expect from the images where he uses figures and a backdrop to create a historical scene, they’re interesting because at first you cant tell if its a actual image or photoshopped in. My favourite piece of his work are his sculptures because they are the most intriguing due to the shapes being aesthetically pleasing to the eye because they are reflective. As I read on the theatre images are a whole film being exposed with a open lens creating a white screen, creating a hour and half worth of time in a photograph Sugimotos work is less visually engaging as Moriyama but if you look further into the image and find more information it makes it more interesting.
Sugimoto took images of a Tableaux which is a painted backdrop with wax figures of monkeys, he plays with fact and fiction because he uses historical subjects which I know isn't real but he makes it look real forming a false reality . |
Images from his gallery
daido MoRiyama
Moriyama is also a Japanese photographer who works in street photography who mainly captures images of urban life in Tokyo who are sometimes black and white and sometimes colour similar to Sugimoto his work showcases his raw and spontaneous lifestyle. His images are chaotic and full of life and people, some even making me feel uncomfortable because of the uncanny side of the people he's taking pictures of. Moriyamas photography is the most interesting because there is alot to observe and ask questions about in his images, like the colours, vibrancy objects and people which instantly grab your attention, even without the colour when his images are in black and white there are full of excitement and scenes. |