Prints & Multiples 
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Hiroshi Sugimoto b.1948

Sea of Okhotsk, Hokkaido (from the Time Exposed portfolio)

1989 / printed 1991
offset lithograph on Mitsubishi Real Art Both Sides and mounted to Peach Kent image: 9⅜ h × 12⅛ w in (24 × 31 cm) mount: 13⅞ h × 18¼ w in (35 × 46 cm)
estimate: $1,500–2,000
result: $1,834
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Embossed title, date and number to support ‘Sea of Okhotsk Hokkaido 1989 325’. This work is from the unnumbered edition of 500 printed by Mitsumura Printing Company, Ltd., Tokyo on the occasion of the artist's retrospective exhibitions at IBM, Tokyo and Carnegie International, Pittsburgh.
provenance: Private Collection, New York
An example of this work is held in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

This work will ship from Los Angeles, California.

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One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing an entire feature film with my camera. I could already picture the projection screen making itself visible as a white rectangle. In my imagination, this would appear as a glowing, white rectangle; it would come forward from the projection surface and illuminate the entire theater. This idea struck me as being very interesting, mysterious, and even religious.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

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