Currently not on view
Elmwood, New Jersey
Hiroshi Sugimoto 杉本博司, born 1948, Tokyo, Japan; active Tokyo and New York, NY
2008-69
Theater stages and seascapes are the subjects of two of Sugimoto’s most iconic series, each of which balances a tightly focused picture with a composition bordering on geometric abstraction. Sugimoto made these series using a large-format camera that captures details in high resolution, yet he also created each exposure over a period of hours— during the full run of the movie or a voyage out to sea. Each photograph thus records the movement of light over time, merging all the details of that period. By eliminating the expected dramatic subject of the scene, Sugimoto’s pictures open the narrative possibilities to the viewer’s imagination.
Information
Object Number
2008-69
Maker
Hiroshi Sugimoto 杉本博司
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dates
1977, printed ca. 1992
Dimensions
image: 42.2 × 54.3 cm (16 5/8 × 21 3/8 in.)
mount: 50.8 × 61 cm (20 × 24 in.)
frame: 63 × 72.8 × 3.8 cm (24 13/16 × 28 11/16 × 1 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Place Depicted
North America, United States, New Jersey, Lakewood, Strand Theater
Signatures
Blindstamped with title, number and date
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61209109
Hiroshi Sugimoto, <em>Hiroshi Sugimoto: Dioramas, Theaters, Seascapes</em> (Japan: Mitsumura, 1988)., Unpaginated
5802 1988
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25747109
"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2008," <em>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</em> 68 (2009): p. 69-119., p. 91
974 2009
