Hiroshi Sugimoto: Snow White (Collector’s Edition)

Text by Hiroshi Sugimoto

Essay by Kerry Brougher

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Clothbound
10.5 x 14 inches
160 pages
76 black and white illustrations
ISBN: 9788862085205C
Co-published with Damiani

Snow White is a unique limited edition book containing 76 artworks by Hiroshi Sugimoto, all from his iconic Theaters series. In this book, Sugimoto reveals for the first time the movies that were screened when he took these photographs and the exposure time of each photograph. Each artwork in Snow White is accompanied by the name of the movie, its running time and a short text about each written by Sugimoto. The black-and-white photographs are hand-tipped onto the pages and the book is bound in silk cloth.

For this limited edition, Sugimoto has printed Teatro dei Varii, Colle di Val d’Elsa, 2014, in an edition of twenty-five gelatin silver prints. Every print is signed by the artist. The book and print are housed in an aluminum box.

Artwork

  • Teatro dei Varii, Colle di Val d’Elsa, 2014
    Gelatin silver print
    Sheet: 14 x 11 inches
    Image: 12.5 x 10 inches
    Mat: 20.625 x 17.625 inches
    Edition of 25

About the Author

Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948) has exhibited extensively in major museums and galleries throughout the world, and his work is held in numerous public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; National Gallery, London; National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Smithsonian, Washington, DC; and Tate, London, among others. Sugimoto divides his time between Tokyo and New York City.