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  • Artist:

    Hiroshi Sugimoto

  • Title:

    Book + Folio "ON THE BEACH" Limited Edition Portfolio of Single Platinum Print

Specifications:

  • Size:

    "Book + Folio"
    ● Box
    W12.7 x D16.4 x H1.8 inches
    (W322 x D416 x H45 mm)
    with Serial Number
    ● Platinum Print
    11 x 14" 1 print (one image out of two choices)
    with Artist's Autograph
    ● Photo Book
    "ON THE BEACH"
    68 pages, Published by amana

  • Edition:

    35

  • Price:

    Please ask for details.

Thumbnails:

Unpublished work of Hiroshi Sugimoto:  ON THE BEACH

 
"In 1990 I visited the seas of New Zealand. The southern hemisphere is so sparsely populated that there were neither boats on the sea, nor people on the shore. One day I came across an unusual cluster of things strewn over a beautiful beach (...) For a while, I turned my lens away from the horizon to focus on these objets in the sand. Persevering with my lonely task on the deserted beach, I half-succumbed to the notion that human civilization had ended. The sight of crafted objects rotting away is at once dreadful and beautiful."

------ Hiroshi Sugimoto, Time's Yardstick

 

 ON THE BEACH, which comes side by side with Seascapes, is first making its appearance after more than 20 years: Revealing Sugimoto’s another vision of time. The objets he photographed, fully in rust, were indeed the fragments of modern civilization.

 

This Book + Folio consists of the photo book ON THE BEACH, published in April 2014 by amana, and one world's top class quality platinum print by amanasalto. The platinum print is special edition from the series ON THE BEACH including Sugimoto's autograph and a serial number.

 

The Book + Folio Series is, in literal terms, a combination of "Book" (of photographs bound together) and "Folio" (photograph prints), with a limited special edition. Our edition boxes are designed by renowned art directors, and each one of them are hand made by highly skilled craftspeople in Japan.

 

* The platinum print includes one image out of two choices.