

Park Hyatt, Tokyo
2015
Park Hyatt, Tokyo positions the viewer at a remove that is simultaneously intimate and alienating, capturing the hushed, dislocated atmosphere of one of the world's most iconic luxury hotels through Alec Soth's characteristically contemplative lens. Made in 2015, the large-format archival pigment print draws on the visual language of stillness and threshold, evoking the particular quality of suspended time that hotel interiors generate, spaces where identity becomes fluid and transience is architecturally encoded. The monumental scale, 133 by 173.4 centimeters, commands the wall with the quiet authority of a cinematic still, inviting prolonged looking in the way that only prints of this size can sustain. Soth, whose extended photographic projects have earned him a place among the most significant documentary artists working today, brings to this image the same sociological attentiveness that defined his landmark series Sleeping by the Mississippi and Broken Manual. Here, Tokyo's Park Hyatt, made culturally resonant through its association with Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation, becomes a subject worthy of Soth's trademark meditation on longing, displacement, and the poetry of ordinary life in extraordinary settings. The print is rendered with the technical precision expected of archival pigment production, ensuring the tonal subtlety and fine detail that distinguish his work remain fully intact across its generous dimensions. Issued in an edition of nine and signed by the artist, this work carries the rarity appropriate to a print of its significance and scale. Currently offered through Sean Kelly Gallery, it represents an opportunity to acquire a mature, carefully resolved example from a body of work that continues to accrue critical and institutional recognition. The frame is not included, allowing collectors the flexibility to present the work according to their own spatial and aesthetic priorities.
- Medium
- Archival pigment print
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
- Location
- Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
- Spotted At
- Gallery · Sean Kelly GalleryView on map
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