Can you capture the inner form of a building by ignoring the detail and taking blurred, moody photographs instead?
Hiroshi Sugimoto's photograph of Frank Lloyd Wright's New York Guggenheim (left) suggests the museum has a different, more shadowy and alien existence than we have been led to believe all these years – but does indeed show the strong vision behind the building. His Architectures series of 21 silver gelatine prints also includes Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building and Philippe Starck's Asahi Breweries.

Best known for his photographs of movie theatres, where the length of the exposure matched that of the film being screened at the time, Sugimoto's series will be on show through the Edinburgh Festival (so you'll probably only get to see it in a blur anyway).

Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Architecture of Time is on at the Fruitmarket and Stills galleries, Edinburgh, from 3 August to 21 September. For details, call 0131 225 2383 or visit www.fruitmarket.co.uk

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Riba Journal