Looking at the birdie: thoughts about posing for a portrait in Hiroshi Sugimoto's studio

(1.) Tracey Bashkoff, "The Exactness of the World: A Conversation with Hiroshi Sugimoto," Sugimoto Portraits, New York, Guggenheim Museum, 2000, pp. 38-39.

(2.) Susan Sontag, On Photography, New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977, p. 154.

(3.) Ibid., p. 52.

(4.) John Berger, About Looking, New York, Pantheon Books, 1980, p. 50.

(5.) Sontag, p. 15.

(6.) Interview in Time Exposed, Stuttgart, Edition Hansjorg Mayer, 1995, p. 95.

(7.) Ibid., p. 94.

Authors: Sylvan Barnet and William Burro are long-time collectors of Japanese art. An exhibition of their Sugimoto holdings was shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, early in 2005.

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