Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theatres - Hardcover

Hans Belting

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0615115969 ISBN 13: 9780615115962

Publisher: Sonnabend Sundell Editions and Eyestorm, 2000

Synopsis

This lavish book is the only complete collection of the renowned Theaters series, in which Hiroshi Sugimoto opens his shutter as a film begins and closes it as it concludes. "Different movies give different brightnesses. If it's an optimistic story, I usually end up with a bright screen; if it's a sad story, it's a dark screen. Occult movie? Very dark."

About this title

About the Author:

Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo in 1948. He studied photography at the Center College of Design in Los Angeles before moving to New York in the 70s. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Berkeley Art Museum, California; the 10th Biennial of Sydney, Australia; capc MusEe de l'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux; the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Hans Belting is professor of art history and media theory at the University of Munich and the University of Chicago, and the author of The End of the History of Art? and Likeness and Presence.

Review:

Using a large format film camera he opens his aperture at the beginning of a movie and does not close it until the movie ends. What happens once the film is developed is sheer unexpected brilliance. In his most recent publication, Theaters, Sugimoto exhibits 130 of his photographs, spanning over the past four decades, displaying a vast array of movie theaters in all their luminance. (Erica McGrath Musée)

In these photographs, which seem to condense not just all the light, but all the emotion contained in an entire film, theaters appear as divine and awe-inspiring as cathedrals. (Carey Dunne Hyperallergic)

A theater isn't merely a place to screen films in, and Hiroshi Sugimoto knows it... By choosing to shoot an entire movie in one frame, he creates luminous images that call attention to the passage of time and the specificity of each location. (Devon Ivie Interview Magazine)

About this edition

• Publisher: Sonnabend Sundell Editions and Eyestorm
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0615115969
• ISBN 13: 9780615115962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224