HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

In 1990, photographer H. Sugimoto visited the seas of New Zealand. On one particular deserted beach, he discovered hundreds of car p arts, probably from the 1960s, disintegrated and corroded by decades under the waves. Photographing them individually, he imagined t hat human civilization had ended, thinking that the sight of crafted objects rotting away is at once dreadful and beautiful. This se ries of heavily black-and-white images of decaying metal on the sand are reproduced in this large-format photo book, accompanied by an intros...[Read more]