This photograph is by Hiroshi Sugimoto. It is a picture of a display of early humans in the museum of natural history. This photograph is part of a set of many pictures Sugimoto took in the museum. I think this is an amazing photograph because of how real Sugimoto makes the display early humans look. The picture is playing with reality because obviously there is no way Sugimoto actually took a picture of early people, but the picture looks real. Its playing with our eyes and how we view photographs; people like to think that a photograph shows reality. Sugimoto is saying that a photograph can pretend to show reality. For the first couple of seconds of looking at it, it almost looks like the picture is of reality and that Sugimoto had his camera with him in the time of early humans, but after a few seconds it all the little details that make it look fake slowly show. The use of black and white makes the display look real because it hides the off colors that would be shown if the photograph was in color. Sugimoto is playing with how reality is depicted in this picture and how people view reality.
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