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Palais Garnier, Paris

Hiroshi Sugimoto

2019
Gelatin-silver print
149.2 x 119.4 cm
Winsing Arts Collection

Photo ©Hiroshi Sugimoto, Courtesy of Lission Gallery

Palais Garnier, Paris

Hiroshi Sugimoto

2019
Gelatin-silver print
149.2 x 119.4 cm
Winsing Arts Collection

In 1976, Hiroshi Sugimoto set up his camera in the back of a New York cinema, setting the exposure time to match the length of the film that was about to begin. The resulting photograph compressed the entire film into a single, still image of a glowing white screen. ‘To watch a two-hour movie,’ the artist notes, ‘is simply to look at 172,800 photographic afterimages. I wanted to photograph a movie, with all its appearance of life and motion, in order to stop it again.’

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Exhibition view at Winsing / Courtesy Winsing Arts Foundation Photo © ANPIS FOTO
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Exhibition view at Winsing / Courtesy Winsing Arts Foundation Photo © ANPIS FOTO
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Artist Biography
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto currently lives and works between New York and Tokyo. His retrospective exhibitions have been presented at prominent institutions worldwide, including the Hayward Gallery in London, the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. He has also held solo exhibitions at leading international museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, Palais de Tokyo, and the Centre Pompidou—all of which house his works in their collections. Sugimoto’s artistic achievements have been recognized with numerous prestigious awards, including the Royal Photographic Society’s Centenary Medal, the Isamu Noguchi Award, Japan’s Medal with Purple Ribbon, the Praemium Imperiale, the Hasselblad Award, and the Mainichi Art Prize.
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