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That Glowing Screen

Conceptually and aesthetically, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s “Theaters” series is brilliant. Photographing movie theaters across the country, Sugimoto matched each photograph’s exposure time with the film’s projection time, thus capturing an entire film in a single frame. In each image, a glowing white rectangle illuminates an entire theater — an effect Sugimoto himself calls “interesting, mysterious, and even religious.”