Hiroshi Sugimoto's Fifty Years Photographing Museum Dioramas

Aperture profiles Hiroshi Sugimoto's Dioramas series, a body of work spanning five decades that photographs natural history museum displays on large-format film. The 1994 image Earliest Human Relatives, shot at New York's American Museum of Natural History, is a centrepiece: sculptural reconstructions of Australopithecus afarensis rendered so convincingly that the artifice disappears entirely in the photograph.