HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: THEATRES with text by Hans Belting

Sonnabend Sundell Editions 2000, First edition, 224 pp., 11 1/2" X 12 1/4", Hardcover in slipcase

Fine book (issued without dust jacket) in very good + slipcase

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.