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ATLAS
A glowing blank cinema screen in an ornate empty theatre — placeholder
Theaters, begun 1978. © replace with licensed image.

Work

Theaters

Year
1978
Type
Photograph

Sugimoto opens the shutter as a film begins and closes it as the film ends. Two hours of moving images collapse into one frame, and the screen becomes a rectangle of pure white light — the sum of a story, illegible and luminous.