Hiroshi Sugimoto's introduction.

1948 was born in Hamamachi, Xiamachi, Tokyo (now Taitung District). His family is Yinmei, a well-run beauty product company in Ginza, and his father is an amateur linguist.

Growing up in several areas that were not bombed by air strikes, I considered myself a "Japanese before the war".

When European and American media ask about the place of birth, his answer is usually "occupied Japan".

/kloc-western education in Christian schools in the 1960 s and 1960 s

Under the influence of my mother, I entered Li Jiao Middle School (now Li Jiao New High School), a famous private Christian school, and received western art education such as oil painting and sculpture. I joined the photography club in high school, and my favorite model is MAMIYA6. Based on the consideration of inheriting the family business in the future, the university studied in the Department of Economics of Rikkyo University.

1970 went to America.

In 1970s, Hiroshi Sugimoto, a college graduate, had no intention of inheriting his family business, and went to the United States with his mother's consent. In the same year, he entered art center college of design to study photography and graduated from 1972.

1974- Identity of art dealers beyond creation

Immigrated to new york, won scholarships from the New York State Government, Guggenheim and American Education Association, and started photography creation. After that, Hiroshi Sugimoto shuttled between new york and Japan as an antique dealer for about ten years. This experience formed the habit of collecting ancient Japanese cultural relics in the future, and also cultivated his accomplishments in ancient Japanese art, architecture, literature and history.

1976, Hiroshi Sugimoto published the first group of works, Perspective Photo Gallery, which visually set the themes of "time" and "history" through photography.

1977 held his first solo exhibition in South Gallery, Japan.

1980 held his first solo exhibition overseas at Sonnabend Art Museum in new york, and toured the Los Angeles Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Art Museum in Germany and the Cartier Foundation in France successively, which was highly praised. Through Hiroshi Sugimoto's creation, the photographic media, which was originally considered to have a low degree of freedom, showed new possibilities.

In 200 1 year, he won the Hasselblad Camera Foundation International Photography Award, which is known as the "Nobel Prize in Photography".

In 2005, the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo held an extremely important and successful large-scale photographic retrospective exhibition "The End of Time", which exhibited more than 100 different series of works of Hiroshi Sugimoto in different periods during the 30 years from/kloc-0 to 2005, both new works and unpublished works. This is his life. The number of visitors set a record for the museum.

In 2006, he visited the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., including his series of works in different periods and his series of "The Shape of Ideas" with double focal lengths at infinity, which conveyed his various ideas about space.

In 2008, the seascape joint work "Black Sea, Ozulus; "Jeju Yellow Sea" fetched $65,438+0,650,000 in new york (the highest record of contemporary photography in Asia).

In 2009, he was awarded Takamatsunomiya praemium imperiale.

Hiroshi Sugimoto is called "the last modernist". His works bring the history, philosophy and aesthetics of the East and the West into photography, which greatly enhances the significance of photography and raises his photographic works to the artistic level ... Besides photography, he also deals with interior design, performance stage, shrine and other architectural work.