photos

Hiroshi Sugimoto

"I have photographed suites of "stereometric exemplars," fabricated in Germany in the late nineteeth and early twentieth centuries and now owned by the University of Tokyo. The mathematical models are sculptural renderings of trigonometric functions; the mechanical models were teaching aids for showing the dynamics of Industrial Revolution-age machinery. Art resides even in things with no artistic intentions."
-Hiroshi Sugimoto

http://www.hirshhorn.si.edu/sugimoto/index.html