Hiroshi Sugimoto > Architecture 1997-2002

Fuente: Hiroshi Sugimoto, Catalogue designed by Takaaki Matsumoto; Hatje Cantz Verlag; 2012
Fotografía: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Early twentieth-century modernism was a watershed moment in cultural history, a stripping away of superfluous decoration. The spread of democracy and the innovations of the Machine Age swept aside the ostentation that heretofore had been a signifier of power and wealth.

I set out to trace the beginnings of modernism via architecture. Pushing out my old large-format camera’s focal length to twice-infinity -with no stops on the bellows rail, the view through the lens was an utter blur- I discovered that superlative architecture survives the onslaught of blurred photography. Thus I began erosion-testing architecture for durability, melting away many of the buildings in the process.

Barragán house, 2002

AEG Turbine Factory, 2000

Monumento ai Caduti, 1998

Chrysler Building, 1997

Seagram Building, 1997

Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1997

World Trade Center, 1997

Church of the Light, 1997

Saint Benedict Chapel, 2000

S. C. Johnson Building, 2001

Einstein Tower, 200

United Nations Headquarters, 1997

Farnsworth House, 2001

German Pavilion, 1998

Egerstrom House, 2002

Eiffel Tower, 1998

Casa Batlló, 1998

Brooklyn Bridge, 2001

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