
Stockholm City Library
A hauntingly still gelatin silver print by Hiroshi Sugimoto captures the iconic rotunda of Stockholm City Library in luminous, otherworldly tones. Sugimoto's mastery of light and long exposure transforms the cylindrical reading room into an almost sacred space, where curved shelves of books rise toward the ceiling in perfect, silent symmetry. The image evokes his signature meditation on time, memory, and architecture, reducing the library to its purest geometric essence.
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print.
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
April 1, 2014
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