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Radio City Music Hall, New York

1978
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 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
  • Object Number: 1995.59
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Hiroshi Sugimoto
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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