hiroshi sugimoto
theaters (1975-2001)

i am a habitual self-interlocutor. one evening night 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 is the east village with  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.