Akron Civic, Ohio

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Over the past thirty years, Sugimoto has worked on only a handful of subjects including movie theaters and seascapes. In the Theaters series, Sugimoto was interested in the possibility of physically recording the passage of time in a still image. Leaving the shutter of his large-format camera open for the duration of an entire film resulted in an otherworldly image of a glowing screen. “My dream was to capture 170,000 photographs on a single frame of film. The image I had inside my brain was of a gleaming white screen inside a dark movie theater. The light created by the excess of exposures would be the embodiment or manifestation of something awe-inspiring and divine.”

Keywords

Theaters
Film
Contemporary Art
Public Buildings
Akron
Japanese
Black and White
Stage