You read that right, just like these three black photos, sold at a super high price of 188.8W US dollars, is still the most auction of photography in Asia. But when people see it, they can call out their name: Hiroshi Sugimoto!

Hatsugi Sugimoto Paris Tower

Hatsugi Sugimoto Leaning Tower of Pisa

But have you all discovered it? The more advanced the building is, the more it can maintain the outline under the impact of "blurred visual effects".

Suzumoto Hiroshi World Trade Center

is particularly famous for the Church of Light, with the main body of the building designed by Tadao Ando .

light penetrates the hollow concrete, projecting a clear cross contour in the dark interior.

Followers of Tadao Ando once commented on it this way:

"I realized many years later that I fell in love with Tadao Ando, ​​but the blurry and out-of-focus image of Hiroshi Sugimoto."

Church of the Light, 1997

Be bolder and wilderer the more you play.

In the "Lightning Field" series, he no longer even takes photos with his camera and lens.

instead uses .4 million volts of electrodes to instantly discharge and burn the negative.

The cause is very simple, he wants to know how to create a lightning-like picture.

During this period, he spent 3 years on , countless trials, and 3 major archives folders .

draws photos of lightning patterns, like a burst of capillaries.

We and people from the Stone Age

see the same sea

worth US$188.8W, from the "Sea View" series.

This is the most influential group of works in China and also his most well-known works.

at first glance, it looks similar, repetitive, boring, and even a bit confusing.

is said to be Jamaican 's Caribbean , but it is no different from the Sea of ​​Japan.

Caribbean Sea (Jamaica)

Japan Sea (Oki)

This is exactly what Hiroshi Sugimoto wants to emphasize.

Before the world was divided into various seas, the sea was in an unknown, same state that had never been touched by humans.

is not a certain sea, but water, gas...

Everything that accommodates the origin of our life.

Mediterranean

His inspiration starts with our country's Song Dynasty .

Among the painters of the Song Dynasty, Hiroshi Sugimoto was particularly fond of Ma Yuan , one of the "Four Great Masters of the Southern Song Dynasty".

At a high level it is a sea view. If you look closely at the floating waves, then you look closely at the particles that make up the waves.

This also has the shooting method of turning the sea into water vapor that flows into air.

Ma Yuan's painting (Song Dynasty)

Take such a photo, Hiroshi Sugimoto needs to inspect the surrounding terrain in advance.

Because, the most suitable place to take pictures of sea views is often steep cliffs above 100m from the sea surface.

. Look at the map, study the weather, and even calculate the direction of the moonlight. This shot of

has been more than 40 years, with a total of 220 pictures.

Of course, every time I still carry his bulky old-fashioned large format camera.

At the moment when emerging art is crowded with minds, he makes a vacant space for the audience.

said, stop, think slowly, don't worry.

This is a special comfort he gives to people of the current era.

In the interview, someone asked him to ask God a question.

he said he would not ask a question, but there was a sentence to God:

"I can do better than you."

For a light waiting for the winter solstice

Hiroshi Sugimoto spent ten years

Without exception, Hiroshi Sugimoto's appearance introduction word always lacks the word "photographer".

But he said that he hates being called a photographer the most.

He entered the construction industry and spent more than ten years designing and building Einoura Ecological Institute .

The so-called "weathering center" is literally a facility used for observation.