Hiroshi Sugimoto
Cabot Street Cinema, Beverly, Massachusetts
Auction Closed
October 25, 04:33 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Hiroshi Sugimoto
B. 1948
Cabot Street Cinema, Beverly, Massachusetts
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1978; accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity
image: 16⅝ by 21½ in. (42.2 by 54.6 cm.)
frame: 25⅞ by 32¾ in. (65.6 by 83.3 cm.)
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, 2004
Kerry Brougher and David Elliot, Hiroshi Sugimoto (Washington, D. C.: Hirshhorn Museum, 2005), p. 85
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters (Bologna, 2016), p. 34
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Snow White (Bologna, 2017), pl. 64
‘I am a habitual self-interlocutor. One evening while taking photographs at the American Museum of Natural History, I had a near-hallucinatory vision. My internal question-and-answer session leading up to this vision went something like this: “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
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