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A movie screen is bright white against a dark gray sky, trees, and a playground in this horizontal, black and white photograph. The screen takes up about a quarter of the overall composition, just above the center of the picture. It is raised off the ground, perhaps on a wall or stage that we cannot see. Light from the screen brushes the tops of trees or shrubs growing near the bottom edge. Three sliding boards, several swing sets, and a merry-go-round fade in and out of shadow around the screen’s glow. Power lines crisscross the dark, clear sky behind the screen.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Tri City Drive-In, San Bernardino, 1993

Not on View

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 42.4 × 54.3 cm (16 11/16 × 21 3/8 in.)

sheet: 47.8 × 57.8 cm (18 13/16 × 22 3/4 in.)
mount: 50.8 × 60.9 cm (20 × 24 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

Accession Number

2013.68.2

Artists / Makers

Hiroshi Sugimoto (artist) Japanese, born 1948

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Copyright

Inscription

signed by artist, lower right on mount in graphite: Sugimoto; on verso of mount, by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: HS.116.1

Marks and Labels

embossed, across bottom under image: Tri City Drive-In San Bernardino 1993 23/25 731

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Pace/MacGill Gallery

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. 21.