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Sugimoto’s portraits provide photographic "evidence" of historical subjects and events previously uncaptured on film. Based on the long-standing association of black-and-white photography with the recording of truth, Sugimoto’s photo-documents playfully reveal the illusion of this assumption. Through layers of reproduction—from subject to painting to wax statue to photograph—what these images most consciously convey is the collapsing of time and the retelling of history.
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