Hilton 42nd St: Hiroshi Sugimoto

My company has a meeting at the Hilton on 42nd St. today. Last time I was there I noticed the business center was decorated with photographs from two series of photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto. The first (shown above) is the theater series of long exposure shots of movie theaters while a film is running, rendering the screen shock white. There are also a handful of formal portraits of wax figures representing early film stars such as Rudolph Valentino and Mae West, for example. It's weird what you'll find socked away in a hotel lobby ten floors up.

Apparently, people like to trawl through Hiroshi's trash for discarded prints.