{"id":120772,"date":"2018-02-28T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=120772"},"modified":"2018-03-01T14:20:30","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:20:30","slug":"hiroshi-sugimotos-portraits-bring-dead-back-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/28\/hiroshi-sugimotos-portraits-bring-dead-back-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiroshi Sugimoto\u2019s Portraits Bring the Dead Back to Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_120773\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiroshi_sugimoto_norma-shearer-1994.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120773\" class=\"wp-image-120773 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiroshi_sugimoto_norma-shearer-1994-e1516834099996.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"777\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-120773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hiroshi Sugimoto,\u00a0<em>Norma Shearer<\/em>, 1994. All photos courtesy of Damiani.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Hiroshi Sugimoto has spent a career photographing fictions. When he moved to New York from Japan in 1974, by way of Los Angeles, he intended to find work as a wedding photographer. Instead, he took his camera to the Museum of Natural History, where he developed a lifelong fascination with dioramas. He photographed\u00a0the taxidermy\u00a0there, already frozen in their meticulously staged tableaux, and, as he writes, \u201cI realized that I too could bring time to a stop. My camera could stop time in the dioramas\u2014where time had already been halted once\u2014for a second time.\u201d This doubling of perspective, which has since become a signature of Sugimoto\u2019s work, can produce unexpected and uncanny transformations: a 1976 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sugimotohiroshi.com\/new-page-54\">photo<\/a> from his \u201cDioramas\u201d series, for example, shows a stuffed polar bear on a faux icescape, looming over a seal, its teeth bared, as though ready to strike. Twice removed from its natural setting, the scene unfreezes. It could easily be confused for a photo of a real bear, a real icescape. \u201cMy life as an artist began,\u201d Sugimoto writes, \u201cwhen I saw with my own eyes that I had succeeded in bringing the bear back to life on film.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Sugimoto achieves similar feats in his latest collection, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.damianieditore.com\/en-US\/product\/658\" target=\"_blank\">Portraits<\/a>,\u201d which will publish this month. For this series, Sugimoto traveled to the Madame Tussauds wax museums in London and Amsterdam, where he selected subjects that span some two thousand\u00a0years of history. As in his Diorama series, the imposition of photographic distance has a kind of embalming effect on Sugimoto\u2019s subjects, rendered somehow more lifelike in the act of preservation. \u201cPhotographs,\u201d Susan Sontag once wrote, \u201care a way of imprisoning reality.\u201d But in Portraits, Sugimoto uses his camera to opposite effect, creating counterfeit realities that give history back to the dead: \u201cHowever fake the subject,\u201d he writes, \u201conce photographed, it\u2019s as good as real.\u201d<\/em> \u2014<em>Spencer Bokat-Lindell<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120774\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiroshi_sugimoto_portraits_cover_temp-e1516835058213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120774\" class=\"wp-image-120774 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiroshi_sugimoto_portraits_cover_temp-e1516835058213.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1119\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-120774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Napoleon Bonaparte<\/em>, 1999.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120775\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiroshi_sugimoto_portraits_elizabeth_tayler_1994-e1516834481680.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120775\" class=\"wp-image-120775 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiroshi_sugimoto_portraits_elizabeth_tayler_1994-e1516834481680.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"777\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-120775\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Elizabeth Taylor<\/em>, 1994.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120776\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiroshi_sugimoto_portraits_fidel_castro_1999-e1516835075509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120776\" class=\"wp-image-120776 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiroshi_sugimoto_portraits_fidel_castro_1999-e1516835075509.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1245\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-120776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Fidel Castro<\/em>, 1999.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120777\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiroshi_sugimoto_portraits_henry_viii_1999-e1516835115334.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120777\" class=\"wp-image-120777 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiroshi_sugimoto_portraits_henry_viii_1999-e1516835115334.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1243\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-120777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Henry VIII<\/em>, 1999.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_120778\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiroshi_sugimoto_portraits_salvador_dali_1999-e1516835122761.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-120778\" class=\"wp-image-120778 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/hiroshi_sugimoto_portraits_salvador_dali_1999-e1516835122761.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1248\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-120778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Salvador Dali<\/em>, 1999.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Excerpted from <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.damianieditore.com\/en-US\/product\/658\" target=\"_blank\">Portraits<\/a>,<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0by Hiroshi Sugimoto\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a9<\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a02018. Reprinted with permission from Damiani and MW Editions.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Hiroshi Sugimoto has spent a career photographing fictions. When he moved to New York from Japan in 1974, by way of Los Angeles, he intended to find work as a wedding photographer. Instead, he took his camera to the Museum of Natural History, where he developed a lifelong fascination with dioramas. 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