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PUBLISHER
Damiani/Matsumoto Editions

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 130 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of stock indefinitely

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2016 p. 34   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9788862084772 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CAD $79.00

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"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."

Hiroshi Sugimoto

  

DAMIANI/MATSUMOTO EDITIONS

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters

Text by Hiroshi Sugimoto.

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters

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: Theaters

STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely.

FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/13/2016

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters

Hiroshi Sugimoto: 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


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/12/2016

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters

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


FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG

CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 8/12/2016

Book Signing at The Strand: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Book Signing at The Strand: Hiroshi Sugimoto

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.
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HIROSHI SUGIMOTO MONOGRAPHS + ARTIST'S BOOKS

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: TIME MACHINE

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775755320
USD $60.00
| CAD $87

Pub Date: 12/19/2023
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Architecture

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: ARCHITECTURE

Damiani/MW Editions

ISBN: 9788862086585
USD $60.00
| CAD $85

Pub Date: 9/17/2019
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Portraits

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: PORTRAITS

Damiani/MW Editions

ISBN: 9788862085823
USD $50.00
| CAD $67.5

Pub Date: 3/27/2018
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Snow White

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: SNOW WHITE

Damiani/Matsumoto Editions

ISBN: 9788862085205
USD $750.00
| CAD $995

Pub Date: 12/26/2017
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Long Never, Lightning Fields 289

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: THE LONG NEVER, LIGHTNING FIELDS 289

Damiani

ISBN: 9788862084697
USD $11,000.00
| CAD $14300

Pub Date: 4/26/2016
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Long Never, Lightning Fields 304

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: THE LONG NEVER, LIGHTNING FIELDS 304

Damiani

ISBN: 9788862084604
USD $11,000.00
| CAD $14300

Pub Date: 4/26/2016
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Glass Tea House Mondrian

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: GLASS TEA HOUSE MONDRIAN

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783863357498
USD $35.00
| CAD $47.5

Pub Date: 9/29/2015
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Glass Tea House Mondrian

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: GLASS TEA HOUSE MONDRIAN

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783863357498
USD $35.00
| CAD $47.5

Pub Date: 9/29/2015
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Conceptual Forms and Mathematical Models

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: CONCEPTUAL FORMS AND MATHEMATICAL MODELS

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775739214
USD $50.00
| CAD $67.5

Pub Date: 3/24/2015
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: DIORAMAS

Damiani

ISBN: 9788862083270
USD $65.00
| CAD $87

Pub Date: 9/30/2014
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Revolution

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: REVOLUTION

Hatje Cantz

ISBN: 9783775734714
USD $60.00
| CAD $79

Pub Date: 2/28/2013
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Looking through Duchamp’s Door

LOOKING THROUGH DUCHAMP’S DOOR

Walther König, Köln

ISBN: 9783865606051
USD $49.95
| CAD $67.5

Pub Date: 2/28/2010
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Cahiers d'Art: Hiroshi Sugimoto

CAHIERS D'ART: HIROSHI SUGIMOTO

Cahiers d'Art

ISBN: 9782851171795
USD $80.00
| CAD $109

Pub Date: 10/21/2014
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