Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
Pier 24 Photography from the Pilara Family Foundation
Hiroshi Sugimoto
U.A. Playhouse, New York
Auction Closed
October 25, 04:33 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Hiroshi Sugimoto
B. 1948
U.A. Playhouse, New York
gelatin silver print, mounted, signed in pencil on the mount, framed, a Fraenkel Gallery label on the reverse, 1978
image: 16¾ by 21½ in. (42.5 by 54.6 cm.)
frame: 25¾ by 33 in. (65.4 by 83.8 cm.)
Sugimoto (Lisbon: Fundación "la Caixa" and Centro Cultural de Belém, 1998), p. 41
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters (Bologna, 2016), p. 35
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Snow White (Bologna, 2017), pl. 63
'"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