Under the conditions of some aspects of the Deleuzian idea of time we will see that many ideas of photographic time are dominated by traditional conceptions of time, what I will show in the second part of my article. In the third part a series of photographs by Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto evokes a sense of time that is floating constantly between reception and production and provokes an understanding of time as event. Sugimoto‟s photograph tend to priviledge the notion of bifurcation and indiscernibility between the actual and virtual in Deleuze‟s chrystal image. In revealing time also as growing time the artist undermines the notion of the photograph as a frozen moment of time and transcends the dialectic form of relatedness to the world. Instead these photographs raise the complex question of the relation between the functioning of time and the image which go beyond traditional temporality and thus highlight fundamental qualities of photography.