"To me photography functions as a fossilization of…" — Hiroshi Sugimoto
"To me photography functions as a fossilization of time."
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14 Quotes by Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions.
- People have been reading photography as a true document, at the same time they are now getting suspicious. I am…
- Art is technique: a means by which to materialize the invisible realm of the mind.
- When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan—at least in Japanese. The word shashin,…
- If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.
- It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.
- I try to never be satisfied; this way I will always be challenging my spirit.
- One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to…
- Fossils work almost the same way as photography as a record of history. The accumulation of time and history becomes…
- Photography is like a found object. A photographer never makes an actual subject; they just steal the image from the…
- Mystery of mysteries, water and air are right there before us in the sea. Every time I view the sea,…
- However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.
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