Hiroshi Sugimoto: The Long Never (Collector’s Edition)

The Long Never is a special-edition book containing 65 artworks by Hiroshi Sugimoto (born 1948). Composed of photographs from five series—Meteorites, Dioramas, Pre-Photographic Time Recording Devices, Lightning Fields and Seascapes—the sequence of images in this book conjures a natural history of the planet, perhaps even one untouched by humans. The black-and-white photographs are hand-tipped onto the pages of the book, which is wrapped in silk cloth. Celebrated author Jonathan Safran Foer has written an original story for the volume. Foer’s text sits on the page underneath each artwork, so the reader must lift up each photograph in order to read the story.

For this limited edition, Sugimoto has printed Lightning Fields 289 and Lightning Fields 304 in an edition of twenty-five each. Every print is signed by the artist. The book and print are housed in a custom-made brushed aluminum box.