Alhambra, San Francisco
Photograph
1992 (made)
1992 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo in 1948. 'Alhambra, San Francisco', (1992) is part of a long standing and on-going project of photographing theatres. Sugimoto records the ambient light created by the cinema screen. The drama of the light effect is balanced by the 'neutrality' of the camera position, always directly facing the screen.
The gelatin-silver process is the most common means of making black and white prints from negatives. They are made from papers coated with a layer of gelatin which contains light sensitive silver salts. They were developed in the 1870s and by 1895 had generally replaced albumen prints because they were more stable, did not turn yellow and were simpler to produce. Gelatin-silver prints remain the standard black and white print type.
The gelatin-silver process is the most common means of making black and white prints from negatives. They are made from papers coated with a layer of gelatin which contains light sensitive silver salts. They were developed in the 1870s and by 1895 had generally replaced albumen prints because they were more stable, did not turn yellow and were simpler to produce. Gelatin-silver prints remain the standard black and white print type.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Alhambra, San Francisco (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin-silver print |
| Brief description | Sugimoto, Hiroshi. 'Alhambra, San Francisco', 1992. Gelatin-silver print. |
| Physical description | Gelatin-silver print of the inside of Alhambra cinema, San Francisco |
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| Gallery label | Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japanese, lives U.S.A, born 1948)
Alhambra, San Francisco. 1992
Gelatin-silver print
Bought 1998
E. 632-1998
"One night I thought of taking a photographic exposure of a film at a movie theatre while the movie was being projected. I imagined how it could be possible to shoot an entire movie with my camera. Then I had the very clear vision that the movie screen would show up on the picture as a white rectangle. I thought that it could look like a very brilliant white rectangle coming out from the screen, shining through the whole theatre. It might seem interesting and mysterious, in some way religious..."
Hiroshi Sugimoto quoted in Thomas Kellin, Hiroshi Sugimoto; Time Exposed, Edition Hansjörg Mayer / Thames and Hudson, 1995, p.91 |
| Object history | This is part of a long standing and on-going body of work featuring theatre interiors. |
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| Places depicted | |
| Summary | Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo in 1948. 'Alhambra, San Francisco', (1992) is part of a long standing and on-going project of photographing theatres. Sugimoto records the ambient light created by the cinema screen. The drama of the light effect is balanced by the 'neutrality' of the camera position, always directly facing the screen. The gelatin-silver process is the most common means of making black and white prints from negatives. They are made from papers coated with a layer of gelatin which contains light sensitive silver salts. They were developed in the 1870s and by 1895 had generally replaced albumen prints because they were more stable, did not turn yellow and were simpler to produce. Gelatin-silver prints remain the standard black and white print type. |
| Bibliographic reference | Kellein, Thomas, 'Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Exposed', London: Thames and Hudson, 1995, p. 30.
Catalogue: Silver and Syrup: Selections from the History of Photography exhibition |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.632-1998 |
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