Artist field note

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Photography as a machine for thinking about time.

Dioramas by Hiroshi Sugimoto — Example from the series
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Dioramas

1976-

Museum animals look uncannily alive because the camera believes the fiction. Sugimoto shows how readily photography manufactures truth.

The five in one idea

Sugimoto uses photography not to catch a moment, but to stretch a moment until it becomes an idea.