North Pacific Ocean, Stinson Beach
1994
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
overall: 42.4 x 54.2 cm (16 11/16 x 21 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Collectors Committee
Accession Number
1996.100.2
Art Historical Context
Hiroshi Sugimoto'sNorth Pacific Ocean, St Beach* (1994) is a captivating gelatin silver print from his iconic Seascapes series, in the 1980s. Captured along the California coast, this 42.4 x 54.2 cm photograph exemplifies Sugimoto's minimalist approach to the eternal dialogue between sea and sky. The horizon line bisects the composition with exquisite precision, rendering waves and clouds in subtle tonal gradations that evoke timeless serenity. Sugimoto, a Japanese artist renowned for probing time and perception, employs a 19th-century large-format camera and long exposures—often at dawn or d...