Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Photographs of Electricity

By John Farrier in Art on Sep 17, 2009 at 3:27 pm


Photo: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto is a Japanese photograher who takes pictures of electrical charges. His exhibit “Lightning Fields” is currently on display at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco. Sugimoto uses a 400,000-volt Van De Graaff generator to directly apply electricity to film. The above image is entitled “Lightning Fields 128, 2008.”

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Previously on Neatorama: Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Henry VIII Photos


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  1. Gauldar
    Sep 17th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    Very cool.

  2. Abbey
    Sep 17th, 2009 at 5:04 pm

    Nature is so amazing. This looks like a river and its tributaries.

  3. felixthecat
    Sep 17th, 2009 at 6:08 pm

    Very nice. Electricity is a fascinating phenomenon.

  4. Alex
    Sep 17th, 2009 at 7:20 pm

    I believe the correct word is “electrifying” ;)

  5. ted
    Sep 17th, 2009 at 7:41 pm

    “Lightening” is not a real word.

  6. ted
    Sep 17th, 2009 at 7:42 pm

    Unless maybe you were Michael Jackson or you lived in India, where you could be lightening your skin.

  7. grcooper
    Sep 18th, 2009 at 1:45 am

    Love! Simply extraordinary!

  8. Emile
    Sep 18th, 2009 at 8:37 am

    Sugimoto is not ” a photograher who takes pictures of electrical charges”. He’s one of the biggest photographers of the last 50 years. “Dioramas” and “Seascapes” are profound masterpieces.

  9. Tom-
    Sep 21st, 2009 at 3:52 pm

    looks like a green cabbage leaf (which is beautiful as well) – Savoy cabbage, Wirsing if you in Germany :)


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