101 Drive-In, Ventura

1993

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Associated Names
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Artist, Japanese, born 1948

This is a photograph of an outdoor movie screen at night. The image features a large, illuminated blank screen dominating the composition, surrounded by darkness. Trees and other outdoor elements blend into the background, subtly visible on the left and right sides. The contrast between the bright screen and the dark surroundings highlights the stillness and emptiness of the venue at night. The distinct lines in the background might suggest distant lights or a long-exposure capture of star trails in the sky.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 42.3 × 54.3 cm (16 5/8 × 21 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 47.6 × 57.6 cm (18 3/4 × 22 11/16 in.)
    mount: 61 × 50.8 cm (24 × 20 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.68.1

  • Copyright

    © Hiroshi Sugimoto, courtesy Pace Gallery

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Hiroshi Sugimoto, NGA purchase (through Pace/MacGill, New York), 2013.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2015, no. 22.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right on mount in graphite: Sugimoto; on verso of mount, by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: HS.098.2

Markings

embossed, across bottom under image: 101 Drive-In Ventura 1993 23/25 714

Wikidata ID

Q64155152

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