February 06, 2007
Hiroshi Sugimoto: "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 a 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."
Direct link to the galleries.
Plus there is an interview with Sugimoto here.
Beautiful. I especially enjoyed the seascapes.
Those are fantastic. I love the drive-in theaters.
This is a fantastic post. I've seen some of Sugimoto's art previously, but did not know that much about the artist. Thanks.
All glory to the
hypnotoadmovie theatre!
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