Book:Time Exposed

Many of Sugimoto’s works shows many different examples of framing in photographs. His Theater Photograph series shows how he frames one or more frames into a frame (frame within a frame). These photos have very balanced  feeling and stability created by repeated shapes and symmetry. His Wax Museum series creates an illusion of the artist was actually present at the scene of the event by framing the wax figures and the background very carefully in his camera. Although the title of the series indicates the fact that the photographs are taken at wax museums, the pictures does not show any tourists, bars that prevents people from getting too close to the figures, or any elements that would show the audiences that the pictures were taken at wax museums.

The photo I chose is a picture from Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Night Seascape series. He’s seascape photos are very interesting; the photos are very simple, yet it is very obvious of its subject. The horizontal line in the middle of the frame is the only distinguishable element in the frame. The picture does not show s beach, a boat on the water, nor a island beyond the horizontal line,  yet the subtle texture of wave on the water and fog clearly indicates that these are seascapes. Sugimoto frames only a small part of the sea, but he was successful at framing the identity of the sea in his picture.