BOOK FORMAT Hardcover, 10 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 130 bw.
PUBLISHING STATUS Pub Date 9/27/2016 Out of stock indefinitely
DISTRIBUTION D.A.P. Exclusive Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 34
PRODUCT DETAILS ISBN 9788862084772TRADE List Price: $60.00 CDN $79.00
AVAILABILITY Not available
TERRITORY NA LA
"I wanted to photograph a movie, with all its appearance of life and motion, in order to stop it again.... My dream was to capture 170,000 photographs on a single frame of film. The image I had inside my brain was of a gleaming white screen inside a dark movie theater. The light created by an excess of 170,000 exposures would be the embodiment or manifestation of something awe-inspiring and divine."
Sugimoto's luminous photographs of classic movie theaters and drive-ins
In the late 1970s, as Hiroshi Sugimoto was defining his artistic voice, he posed a question to himself: “Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame?” The answer that came to him: “You get a shining screen.” For almost four decades, Sugimoto has been photographing the interiors of theaters using a large-format camera and no lighting other than the projection of the running movie. He opens the aperture when a film begins and closes it when it ends. In the resulting images, the screen becomes a luminous white box and the ambient light subtly brings forward the rich architectural details of these spaces.
Sugimoto began by photographing the classic movie palaces built in the 1920s and ‘30s, their ornate architectural elements a testament to the cultural importance of the burgeoning movie industry. He continued the series with drive-in theaters. In the last decade, Sugimoto has photographed historic theaters in Europe as well as disused theaters that show the ravages of time. Taken together, these photographs present an extended meditation on the passage of time, a recurring theme in his artwork. Theaters, the third in a series of books on Sugimoto’s art, presents 130 photographs, 21 of which have never before been published.
Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948) has exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries throughout the world, and his work is held in numerous public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; National Gallery, London; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Smithsonian, Washington, DC; and Tate, London, among others. Sugimoto divides his time between Tokyo and New York City.
"Paramont Theater, Newark, 2015" is reproduced from Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters.
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Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Otherworldly Photographs of Movie Theaters
Hiroshi Sugimoto's 1978 photograph of Radio City Music Hall is reproduced from Theaters, the gorgeous new addition to Damiani and Matsumoto Editions' ongoing Sugimoto book series, which currently includes Seascapes and Dioramas. Sugimoto describes seeing his first experiment in the series: "The image was something that neither existed in the real world nor was it anything that I had seen. So who had seen it, then? My answer: it was what the camera saw. It was the afterimage of a great accumulation of afterimages. The excess of light was illuminating the darkness of ignorance." continue to blog
Forty years ago, at the age of 28, noted Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto began his Theaters series. With a large-format camera, he photographs classic and drive-in movie theaters with no lighting other than the running movie. When the movie begins, his aperture opens; when the movie ends, it closes. The resulting images are haunting and luminous. Pictured here is "Union City Drive-In, Union City, 1993." To learn more about the series and Sugimoto's life as a photographer, come to the Strand Bookstore tonight, where he will appear in conversation with Darius Himes. Book signing to follow. continue to blog
Wednesday October 12 from 7-8PM, acclaimed photographer and architect Hiroshi Sugimoto will appear in conversation with Darius Himes, International Head of Photographs at Christie’s, at the Strand Bookstore in celebration of Theaters, Sugimoto's latest collection of photographs published by Damiani and Matsumoto Editions. Signing to follow. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 10 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 130 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $60.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $79 ISBN: 9788862084772 PUBLISHER: Damiani/Matsumoto Editions AVAILABLE: 9/27/2016 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: NA LA
Published by Damiani/Matsumoto Editions. Text by Hiroshi Sugimoto.
Sugimoto's luminous photographs of classic movie theaters and drive-ins
In the late 1970s, as Hiroshi Sugimoto was defining his artistic voice, he posed a question to himself: “Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame?” The answer that came to him: “You get a shining screen.” For almost four decades, Sugimoto has been photographing the interiors of theaters using a large-format camera and no lighting other than the projection of the running movie. He opens the aperture when a film begins and closes it when it ends. In the resulting images, the screen becomes a luminous white box and the ambient light subtly brings forward the rich architectural details of these spaces.
Sugimoto began by photographing the classic movie palaces built in the 1920s and ‘30s, their ornate architectural elements a testament to the cultural importance of the burgeoning movie industry. He continued the series with drive-in theaters. In the last decade, Sugimoto has photographed historic theaters in Europe as well as disused theaters that show the ravages of time. Taken together, these photographs present an extended meditation on the passage of time, a recurring theme in his artwork. Theaters, the third in a series of books on Sugimoto’s art, presents 130 photographs, 21 of which have never before been published.
Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948) has exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries throughout the world, and his work is held in numerous public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; National Gallery, London; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Smithsonian, Washington, DC; and Tate, London, among others. Sugimoto divides his time between Tokyo and New York City.
