Is it possible to watch a whole film in a single frame? ‘Habitual self-interlocutor’ Hiroshi Sugimoto has been attempting to distill cinema into a snapshot since the 1970s in a series of photographic experiments called Theaters. The Japanese photographer’s eccentric endeavour began in a movie theatre in New York’s East Village, where he set up his large-format camera with its shutter fixed at its widest aperture and directed at the screen. After a two-hour exposure, Sugimoto closed the…
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