Hiroshi Sugimoto

In original packing publisher's box

The Long Never is a unique special edition book containing sixty-five artworks by Hiroshi Sugimoto. Composed of photographs from five series ' 'Meteorites', 'Dioramas', 'Pre Photographic Time Recording Devices', 'Lightning Fields', and 'Seascapes' ' the sequence of images in this book conjures a natural history of the planet, perhaps even one untouched by humans. The black-and-white photographs are hand-tipped onto the pages of the book, which is wrapped in silk cloth. Celebrated author Jonathan Safran Foer has written an original story for this book. Foer's text sits on the page underneath each artwork, so the reader must lift up each photograph in order to read the story.

Expanded version of the 2000 Sonnabend edition.

There is a 2nd signed copy damaged with bumps on edges.

This is not the 2011 reprint.

When renowned Hiroshi Sugimoto was invited to photograph the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, his attention immediately focused on an immense steel sculpture, Richard Serra's Joe, one of the artist's torqued spirals, which occupies a small courtyard of the museum. Joe allows viewers to walk in through a narrow passage between towering, sloping walls. The path leads to a surprising central space from which only the curving steel walls and the sky are visible. Combining extremely soft light and blurred darkness, Sugimoto's pictures in this book capture the elliptical nature of Serra's piece. His images are complemented by the words of Jonathan Safran Foer, whose affecting prose poem about an "average Joe" experiencing the circular passage of time—echoes, without directly referencing, Serra's sculpture.

Designed by Takaaki Matsumoto, this large-format book features tritone reproductions printed on luxurious uncoated stock. The result is an eloquent and visually arresting commentary on time, impermanence, and memory.

This is the 1000 run of the hardcover edition, not the 3000 run of the softcover version.