Photographs from the 'Theaters' series (including movie theaters and drive-in theaters) and a statement by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Essay by Professor Hans Belting. Designed by Takaaki Matsumoto and Larissa Nowicki of Matsumoto Incorporated, New York. Also includes an exhibition history, bibliography and index. All images were scanned and separated using quadratone separation, by Robert J. Hennessey. All plate sections were beautifully printed using drytrap offset printing on Mohawk Superfine Smooth Eggshell 100lb paper, by Meridian Printing. The cover was silk-screened with Day-Glo ink and then matte film laminated. The book was Smythsewn bound and is enclosed in a specially designed brushed aluminum slipcase. The design and reproductions are absolutely exquisite; one of the most beautiful photography books. This deluxe limited edition is accompanied by a limited edition of Hiroshi Sugimoto's 'U.A. Walker, New York, 1978' photograph, scrupulously reproduced in hand-pulled photogravure by the renowned printer Jon Goodman. The prints were signed by Sugimoto (the book is not numbered or signed), and are cased in a custom-made, piano hinged, brushed aluminum box (the edition number is hand-written on a printed paper paste-down sheet affixed inside the upper aluminum case cover). The image (approx. 11 1/2 by 17 1/2 inches) was printed on acid-free BFA paper (21 1/2 by 17 1/2 inches). From the publisher: " This book is the first-ever [major] collection of Hiroshi Sugimoto's 'Theater' photographs. To create each image, Sugimoto would take a long-exposure photograph of a cinema screen for the entire duration of a movie, resulting in a blank white screen. 'Different movies give different brightnesses,' he said. 'If it's an optimistic story, I usually end up with a bright screen; if it's a sad story, it's a dark screen. Occult movie? Very dark.' The project was partly the result of wanting to make a simple form visible: 'The simplest forms have authority, like a blank white light. And how do you photograph that? You need a framework to make it visible. But this is not simply white light; it is the result of too much information.'" (Antiq. Borelli, Albuquerque, NM).