Date: 1978
Title: Theaters
I really enjoy all of Hiroshi Sugimoto's work with the slow shutter speeds, black and white, and symmetry. This is a series of theaters that he took with no one attending the movie with the movie playing. The detail and intention of great symmetry is pretty amazing and the sense of people that you expect to see in a movie theater but are not there. It is also interesting that he investigates the notion of how time is captured on film and the photographs test the limitations of time within the context of two dimensional representations.
Good Comment Bao!
ReplyDeleteIt's hard not to look for some deeper meaning in Sugimoto's work. One site suggests the theater series is a critique of consumerism. The site you refer to suggests that the images are "icons of nostalgia."
ReplyDeleteI suppose they can be both of these things and more (e.g., everything, all life and death, blurs into a one-ness over time), and Sugimoto's own relatively terse descriptions invite the search for deeper meaning (http://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/theater.html), but they are also just beautiful.