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Hiroshi Sugimoto and Peter Stephens also try to capture time with their references to expansive, scenic views. In his nocturnal seascapes such as North Pacific Ocean, Mt. Tamalpais, 1994, Sugimoto opens the lens of his camera for several hours, so that the movement of the waves and clouds meld into two abstract regions. The seizure of so many minutes into one image gives the work a timeless aura. While Sugimoto's seascape references a desire to hold on to the ephemeral, Peter Stephens’s work addresses nostalgia. Van Patten Pond 02-01, 1997, pictures time not as it passes before our eyes, but as our longing for the past. The trees and their reflection in the pond recall the work of painters and photographers at the turn of the nineteenth-century who were interested in nature as a place of escape from the weight of the industrialized world.
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