Hiroshi Sugimoto: Architecture

The latest in Damiani and MW Editions' Sugimoto project collects his majestic images of classic modernist buildingsIn 1997 Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948) began a series of photographs of significant works of modernist architecture intending Òto trace the beginnings of our age via architecture.Ó One of the hallmarks of SugimotoÕs work is his technical mastery of the medium. He makes photographs exclusively with an 8 x 10 view camera and his silver gelatin prints are renowned for their tonal range total lack of grain wealth of detail and overall optical precision. In making the Architecture photographs however he inverted his usual process: ÒPushing out my old large-format cameraÕs focal length to twice-infinity ... I discovered that superlative architecture survives the onslaught of blurred photography. Thus I began erosion-testing architecture for durability completely melting away many of the buildings in the process.ÓIn this volume which includes 19 previously unpublished images the la