{"id":239,"date":"2006-10-28T19:41:40","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T10:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/blog\/?p=141"},"modified":"2006-10-28T19:41:40","modified_gmt":"2006-10-28T10:41:40","slug":"hiroshi-sugimoto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Hiroshi Sugimoto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m1248\/is_2_94\/ai_n16129789\">Tracey Bashkoff:<\/a> Have you ever made photographic portraits?<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hirshhorn.si.edu\/sugimoto\/bio.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><br \/>\nHiroshi Sugimoto<\/a>: Of live people? No&#8211;I&#8217;m not interested in living people at all. [Laughs]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2003_017_01-JPG.jpg\" id=\"image148\" src=\"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/2003_017_01-JPG.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"106.jpg\" id=\"image147\" src=\"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/106.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Interesting pictures that Sugimoto took of diorama&#8217;s. He mentioned that:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I made a curious discovery while looking at the exhibition of animal dioramas: the stuffed animals positioned before painted backdrops looked utterly fake, yet by taking a quick peek with one eye closed, all perspective vanished, and suddenly they looked very real. I had found a way to see the world as a camera does. However fake the subject, once photographed, it&#8217;s as good as real. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some podcasts <a title=\"podcast\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hirshhorn.si.edu\/sugimoto\/index.html\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"portraits\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hirshhorn.si.edu\/sugimoto\/waxfigures\/index.htm\" class=\"broken_link\">portraits<\/a> are great as well, especially the way they were created:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the sixteenth century Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543), Flemish court painter to the British Crown, painted several imposing and regal portraits of Henry VIII. Based on these portraits the highly skilled artisans of Madame Tussauds wax museum re-created an absolutely faithful likeness of the king. Using my own studies of the Renaissance lighting by which the artist might have painted, I remade the royal portrait, substituting photography for painting. If this photograph now appears lifelike to you, perhaps you should reconsider what it means to be alive here and now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image151\" alt=\"834.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/834.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image150\" alt=\"833.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.workvitamins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/833.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tracey Bashkoff: Have you ever made photographic portraits? Hiroshi Sugimoto: Of live people? No&#8211;I&#8217;m not interested in living people at all. [Laughs] Interesting pictures that Sugimoto took of diorama&#8217;s. He mentioned that: &#8220;I made a curious discovery while looking at the exhibition of animal dioramas: the stuffed animals positioned before painted backdrops looked utterly fake, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workvitamins.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}