Resumen de Selbsterfindung und Selbstverleugnung: Hiroshi Sugimotos "Dioramas" im kontext
The Japanese-American photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto started out as an artist in 1975 with a series of photographs titled "Dioramas". This article attempts to identify the precise context in which Sugimoto conceived this series and invented himself as an artist. It also studies the principle of animation that characterizes the photographs, and establishes the potographic medium as the arena in which fundamental questions concerning art and artists are examined. This article states that photography was central to Sugimoto's attempt to establish himself as an artist on the East Coast of the United Stated because the medium denies its own existence and can therefore be termed transcultural.
