Within this Short piece of text I will be talking about Dominic
Willsdon’s Short essay on the Aegean Sea, Pillion 1990 a photograph taken by
Hiroshi Sugimoto a Japanese photographer. The photograph was originally taken from
a large set of other seascapes images; Hiroshi has been creating this set of
images since 1980 the shots were taken from multiple places around the globe.
The set of Images have all been technically shot in the same way, with the same
thought process. Dominic tells us that “sugimoto has travelled to different
places to produce essentially the same image but in a number of variations’’
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| Aegean Sea, Pillion 1990 |
This one particular image is shot in monochrome and the horizon line
splits the image in half equally between the sea and the sky but somehow made
them merge together, it’s like there is so beginning and end. The shot has no
other distractions in the shot. For example there are no people in the
background, no weather affecting the image it is completely clear as it only shows
the sea and the sky.
He gets a different feel from viewing
the image, absorbing what it has to offer, as people may think it just a
photograph of the sea and sky but if you look into it a bit closer you can tell
that the photo has a certain amount of “discipline” to create an image with
such texture to it, as the sea and sky
has a high contrast between them and the sea also holds a fairly amount of
grain and the focal length is a bit blurred as the mist falls within the sky.
References:
Howarth, S and Alexander, M. D. 2005
Singular images: Essay on Remarkable Photographs. New York: Aperture
Aegean Sea, Pillion 1990 - Horoshi Sugimoto Essay By Dominic Willsdon
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