Theatres

Folio (303 x 277 mm), pp.224. 95 black-and-white photographs, texts by Sugimoto and Hans Belting, design by Takaaki Matsumoto and Larissa Nowicki. Original paper-covered boards, silkscreened with light green day-glo ink, spine lettered in silver. Original gravure print (436 x 536 mm) signed by Sugimoto in pencil to recto, in brushed aluminium hinged case with original card box. Fine.

First edition, one of 1000 copies issued with a signed gravure print ‘U. A. Walker, New York, 1978’. Sugimoto’s theatre photographs are exposed for the exact length of the film being projected, thus rendering the screenwhite.

Parr, M. and Badger, G., The Photobook: A History Vol I, 308-9.