FORT WORTH.- The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents the exhibit Hiroshi Sugimoto: End of Time through January 21, 2007. Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948, Japan) is celebrated for his multiple series of haunting black-and-white photographs, which explore the themes of time, memory, dreams, and history. Deeply influenced by traditional Japanese architecture and painting, Sugimoto creates richly detailed images that are often suffused with expanses of light and space. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, and the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, have co-organized this exhibition, the first major survey of his work. Featuring photographs dated from 1976 to the present, it encompasses the entirety of Sugimoto’s nearly 30-year career.

Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in 1948, is a Japanese photographer currently dividing his time between Tokyo and New York City. His catalog is made up of a number of series, each having a distinct theme and similar attributes.

His use of an 8×10 large-format camera and extremely long exposures are two techniques which have garned Sugimoto a reputation as a photographer of the highest technical ability. Sugimoto is equally acclaimed for the conceptual and philosophical aspects behind his work as he is for his technical ability.

Sugimoto began his work with "Dioramas" in 1976, a series in which he photographed displays in natural history museums. The cultural assumption that cameras always show us reality tricks many viewers into assuming the animals in the photos are real until they examine the pictures carefully. His series "Portraits", begun in 1999, is based on a similar idea. In that series, Sugimoto photographs wax figures of Henry VIII and his wives. These wax figures are based off of portraits from the 1500s and when taking the picture Sugimoto attempts to recreate the lighting that would have been used by the painter.

Begun in 1978, Sugimoto's Theatres series involved photographing old American movie palaces and drive-ins, exposing the film for the duration of the entire film, the film projector providing the sole lightning. The luminescent screen in the centre of the composition, the architectural details and the seats of the theatre are the only subjects in the photographs, and the unique lighting gives the works a surreal look, as a part of Sugimoto's attempt to reveal time in photography.