Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters

Sugimoto, Hiroshi; Hans Belting

ISBN 10: 0615115969 / ISBN 13: 9780615115962

Published by Sonnabend Sundell Editions & eyestorm & Walther Konig, New York, 2000

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SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Fine/As New hardcover in a Fine/As New slipcase still enclosed in the publisher's shrink wrap; no dj as issued. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. This volume features the complete collection of the renowned Theaters series, in which Sugimoto opened his shutter as a film began and closed it as it concluded. "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." The spine and covers of the book have been silk-screened with Day-glo ink so it glows in the dark. Photographs and statement by Hiroshi Sugimoto; essay by Hans Belting. SIGNED BY SUGIMOTO on the title page with a calligraphy brush in black ink; no inscription. From an unnumbered edition limited to 4000 copies. 224 pages; 96 full-page quadra-toned b&w plates; 11 x 12 inches. Exhibition history, bibliography, index. Ref: Parr & Badger, Photobook, Vol. I, p308 "amongst the most ravishing photobooks ever published;" Roth, Open Book, p390; Auer, 802 Photobooks, p757. Due to size and weight, international and expedited shipping will be more than quoted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Hiroshi Sugimoto: Theaters
• Publisher: Sonnabend Sundell Editions & eyestorm & Walther Konig, New York
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0615115969
• ISBN 13: 9780615115962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
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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."

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 "Musee "

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 "