South Bay Drive-In, South Bay

1993

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Associated Names
Hiroshi Sugimoto

Artist, Japanese, born 1948

The image features a large, rectangular billboard or screen emitting a bright white light, set against a dark background. Beyond the screen, there are silhouetted trees and distant buildings illuminated with artificial lights. The ground in the foreground is bare, with visible texture. The composition is in black and white, emphasizing the contrast between the screen and the night sky.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg

  • Dimensions

    image: 42.23 × 54.13 cm (16 5/8 × 21 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 47.63 × 54.29 cm (18 3/4 × 21 3/8 in.)
    mount: 50.17 × 63.5 cm (19 3/4 × 25 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2025.16.63

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Pace/MacGill Gallery, Beverly Hills); Bernard and Lenore Greenberg, Los Angeles, October 1997; gift to NGA, 2025.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, on mount below image, lower right in graphite: Hiroshi Sugimoto

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