Working across photography, sculpture, installation and – most recently – also architecture, photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto explores his concerns of time, memory and societal progress, tracing their origins, while bridging Eastern and Western ideologies.

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Marian Goodman Gallery, London, is now presenting Sugimoto’s work for the first time in Snow White, a collection of photographic works from Sugimoto’s Theaters series (1978 – ongoing). The works in the exhibition focus on theaters in America and Europe, specifically Drive-in theaters, Abandoned theaters and most recently a series of Italian Opera theaters.

Alongside this comprehensive show another series of the artist is presented coincidingly at the Paris branch of Marian Goodman Gallery focusing on contemplative seaside photographies that stand out with their minimalist and abstract qualities.

The Theaters series began as an experiment in which Sugimoto used a long exposure (dictated by the duration of each film) to capture the thousands of moving images on a single frame of film. The ‘afterimage’ of this long exposure is one of a gleaming, pure white screen, which remains in our visual memory beyond the physical experience of the actual film screening.

With the exhibition Snow White in London and a publication of the same name, the artist will for the first time reveal the titles of many of the films screened and captured for the Theaters series.

The Abandoned Theaters depict the former grand halls of music and film now dilapidated, left to decay for decades. Reflecting the various economic downturns and changes in patterns of social entertainment. Hiroshi Sugimoto says about his approach and working process: “If I already have a vision, my work is almost done. The rest is a technical problem.”

Snow White, a new limited edition book published by Damiani, has been launched at Librairie Marian Goodman, Paris and is on sale at selected book shops.

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