Artist field note

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Photography as a machine for thinking about time.

Theaters by Hiroshi Sugimoto — Example from the series
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Theaters

1978-

An entire film is exposed into a single white screen. Two hours of moving images become one rectangle of accumulated light.

The five in one idea

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