Realismo e fotografia: Dioramas de Hiroshi Sugimoto do Museu de História Natural de Nova Iorque

Abstract

This text aims to analyze the representation of the Dioramas, from the viewpoint of Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. Sugimoto photographed these artificial scenarios, questioning the realism discourse of the photographic image.The eye of the photographer involves structures of knowledge. The monocular vision and perspective representation implies in the tradition of conceiving what is seen as “reality”. Paradigms of photographic discourse and characteristics of photography inter-relate to the particularities of Japanese culture. The photographs and concepts stated by Sugimoto suggest theoretical debates and raise photographic analysis of cultural constructions: ways of conceiving the visual world that surrounds us, through the gaze of the photographer.