The way he tells it, however, it seems the artist’s most famous – and certainly most purchased – piece has an impoliteness or perhaps, more charitably, a misjudgment at the core of its popularity.
U2 might not have chosen to use his photograph, Boden Sea, Uttwil, as the cover of their No Line On The Horizon album in 2009 if Bono, an admirer and friend of Sugimoto, had not made the mistake of asking the Japanese photographer and architect to take a picture of the sea from one of the Irish singer’s houses.
