Elmwood, New Jersey

© 1977, Sugimoto Hiroshi

Elmwood, New Jersey

Currently not on view

Elmwood, New Jersey,

1977, printed ca. 1992

Hiroshi Sugimoto 杉本博司, born 1948, Tokyo, Japan; active Tokyo and New York, NY
2008-69
Theater stages and seascapes are the subjects of two of Sugimoto’s most iconic series, each of which balances a tightly focused picture with a composition bordering on geometric abstraction. Sugimoto made these series using a large-format camera that captures details in high resolution, yet he also created each exposure over a period of hours— during the full run of the movie or a voyage out to sea. Each photograph thus records the movement of light over time, merging all the details of that period. By eliminating the expected dramatic subject of the scene, Sugimoto’s pictures open the narrative possibilities to the viewer’s imagination.

Information

Title
Elmwood, New Jersey
Dates

1977, printed ca. 1992

Maker
Hiroshi Sugimoto 杉本博司
Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 42.2 × 54.3 cm (16 5/8 × 21 3/8 in.)
mount: 50.8 × 61 cm (20 × 24 in.)
frame: 63 × 72.8 × 3.8 cm (24 13/16 × 28 11/16 × 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund

Object Number
2008-69
Place Depicted

North America, United States, New Jersey, Lakewood, Strand Theater

Marks/Labels/Seals

Blindstamped with title, number and date

Culture
Japanese
Type
gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs, photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process, mounting
Subject
motion pictures (information artifacts), projections, light, time, theaters

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