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VG+ BW illustrated glossy glued wraps, 170 pp., many BW illus., two fold-outs. Issued in conjunction with several 2000 exhibitions of portrait work by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948). With five thematic and illustrated essays. Includes a chronology, exhibitions history, and bibliography. "Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is renowned for his elegant photographic series of seascapes, theaters, museum dioramas, and Buddhist statuary. His new series presents life-size, black-and-white portraits of historical figures--Henry VIII and each of his wives, Voltaire, Benjamin Franklin, Oscar Wilde, and Emperor Hirohito, among others--photographed in wax museums, isolated against black backgrounds, and dramatically lit so as to create haunting Rembrandtesque images. The series, which also includes a 25-foot, five-panel photograph of a wax effigy of Leonardo's Last Supper, emulates the grand tradition of portraiture and recalls the wax figures' sources in famous paintings by Holbein, David, Van Dyck, and Vermeer." (dj) Fascinating!
