Tyrrhenian Sea, Positano
1990
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 42 × 54.3 cm (16 9/16 × 21 3/8 in.) sheet: 48.5 × 60.3 cm (19 1/8 × 23 3/4 in.) mount: 50.8 × 66 cm (20 × 26 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Lenore S. and Bernard Greenberg
Accession Number
2022.34.16
Art Historical Context
Hiroshi Sugimoto's *Tyrrhenian Sea, Positano* (1990) captures the timeless beauty of the Mediterranean horizon off Italy's Amalfi Coast. Part of the artist's renowned Seascapes series, begun in 1980, this gelatin silver print exemplifies Sugimoto's minimalist approach to photography. Born in Japan and based in New York, Sugimoto draws on Zen philosophy and Western Romanticism to evoke the sublime, photographing seascapes worldwide to reveal their universal essence—a thin, blurred horizon dividing sea and sky. Printed in crisp black-and-white gelatin silver, the medium enhances the image's eth...