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Hiroshi Sugimoto Japanese
Not on view
Despite the bright white screen and empty auditorium, Sugimoto's photograph is about presence rather than absence. The light--both on the screen and softly reflecting throughout the hall--is the light of a movie projected during Sugimoto's hour-and-a-half or two-hour exposure.
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Title: Radio City Music Hall, New York
Artist:
Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, born Tokyo, 1948)
Date: 1978
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 42.4 x 54.1 cm (16 11/16 x 21 5/16 in.)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 1995
Accession Number: 1995.59
Rights and Reproduction: © Hiroshi Sugimoto
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