Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Orinda Theatre, Orinda

Auction Closed

October 25, 04:33 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 25,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Hiroshi Sugimoto

B. 1948

Orinda Theatre, Orinda

gelatin silver print, title, date, edition '12/25,' and number '248' blindstamped in the margin, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1992

image: 16¾ by 21⅜in. (42.5 by 54.4 cm.)

frame: 29¼ by 33⅛ in. (74.2 by 84.3 cm.)

Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Private collection, Europe

Christie’s New York, 10 May 2006, Sale 1660, Lot 503

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2006

San Francisco, Pier 24 Photography, HERE., May 2011 – January 2012

HERE. (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2011), unpaginated (this print)

Thomas Kellein, Time Exposed (London, 1995), p. 34

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters (Bologna, 2016), p. 65

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Snow White (Bologna, 2017), pl. 51

'"Suppose you shoot a whole movie in a single frame?" The answer: "You get a shining screen." Immediately I began experimenting in order to realize this vision. One afternoon I walked into a cheap cinema in the East Village with a large-format camera. As soon as the movie started, I fixed the shutter at wide-open aperture. When the movie finished two hours later, I clicked the shutter closed. That evening I developed the film, and my vision exploded before my eyes.'

Hiroshi Sugimoto