Hiroshi Sugimoto – Palace, New Jersey

Palace, New Jersey, 1977

• Artist: Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, born 1948)
• Medium: Gelatin silver print
• Dimensions (image): 42.2 × 54.2 cm (16 5/8 × 21 3/8 in)
• Dimensions (sheet): 47.7 × 57.9 cm (18 3/4 × 22 3/4 in)
• Edition: Edition of 25
• Signature: Signed lower right on the original paper mount; blind stamped with title, date, number and "218" on the lower margin
• Date: 1977 

Palace, New Jersey is a gelatin silver print executed in 1977 by Hiroshi Sugimoto — one of the most celebrated, intellectually rigorous, and internationally recognized photographers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries — signed lower right on the original paper mount and blind stamped with the title, date, number, and "218" on the lower margin, from the edition of 25, presented framed.

Hiroshi Sugimoto occupies a position of absolute singularity in the history of contemporary photography. Born in Tokyo in 1948 and based between New York and Tokyo, Sugimoto has built across five decades a body of work of extraordinary conceptual depth, formal beauty, and philosophical ambition — a practice rooted in a sustained meditation on time, perception, memory, and the nature of the photographic image itself. His celebrated series — Theaters, Seascapes, Dioramas, Architecture — each approaches its subject through a single, rigorously maintained formal strategy, producing images of exceptional stillness, luminosity, and metaphysical resonance that have secured his place among the most important artists working in the photographic medium today. His work is held in the permanent collections of MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and virtually every major institution dedicated to the history and practice of photography.

Palace, New Jersey belongs to Sugimoto's landmark Theaters series — one of the most celebrated and widely recognized bodies of work in his entire output, and one of the defining photographic projects of the late twentieth century. In this series, begun in 1978, Sugimoto photographed movie theaters and drive-ins across America with an exposure duration equal to the full length of the film being screened — producing images in which the entire content of the film is collapsed into a single, blazing rectangle of pure white light at the center of the architectural frame. The result is an image of extraordinary conceptual precision and visual power: the movie — the very emblem of time-based, narrative, moving imagery — is rendered as pure, static, undifferentiated light, a meditation on the nature of cinema, photography, time, and the act of seeing that has never been surpassed in its elegance and economy.

The work is in excellent condition.

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