Artist field note

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Photography as a machine for thinking about time.

Lightning Fields by Hiroshi Sugimoto — Example from the series
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Lightning Fields

2006-

Electrical discharges mark photographic plates directly. The image is made by energy rather than by a camera looking at the world.

The five in one idea

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