Chapter 4 - Kat Eaves Chapter 4 Questions 9/6/16 Hiroshi...

Kat Eaves
Chapter 4 Questions
9/6/16
Hiroshi Sugimoto
1. Modern Architecture or modernist architecture is a term applied to an overarching
movement, with its exact definition and scope varying widely.
2. Indexical Nature of Photography- Term refers to the physical relationship between
the object photographed and the resulting image
3. Permian Land (1992) is a black and white photograph created by Hiroshi Sugimoto
in 1992. The photo depicts a foreign landscape and strange creatures, which after
doing research the viewer will find out are dimetrodons, a kind of carnivorous
dinosaur! Obviously Sugimoto didn’t take a photo of a scene that would have taken
place millions of years ago in the Permian period, however he did cleverly take a
photo of a dinosaur diorama in a museum of natural history. In this work of art he
has created his own form of time travel!

4. Permian
Period – a
prehistoric time period that took place 290 to 248 million years ago.
5. Dimetrodon translates to “two measures of teeth” and are the two creatures with the
fins depicted in Sugimoto’s photograph. The species existed during the Early
Permian period and were large carnivorous reptiles native to what is now North
America.
6. Paleozoic- the earliest of the three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon, translated
to “ancient life” from greek, and was a “time of dramatic geological, climatic, and