Hiroshi Sugimoto’s photographs of historic theatres detail intricate stonework and towering pillars that seem more befitting of castles and palaces than an evening at the pictures. Sugimoto began this series by photographing cinemas and drive-ins across the USA, but his most recent images, taken across Italy, are quintessentially European. The heavy velvet curtains and flickering candles that surround the illuminated cinema screens add more than a touch of Baroque to the…
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