Sharon Harper: From Above and Below
“Sharon Harper’s work jettisons this idea of the photograph as a seamless window to reality and replaces it with a magic mirror, a transformative surface that is capable of making the invisible visible and the intangible tactile.”
— Stepehen Pinson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photographs by Sharon Harper
Essays by Jimena Canales and Phillip Prodger
Hardbound / 14 x 11 inches
39 color illustrations / 20 pages
ISBN: 9781934435526
Trade: $55.00
Rare, Signed: $150.00
Limited edition of this book available HERE
From Above and Below features ten years of SHARON HARPER’s conceptual photographs and video stills exploring perception, technology and the night sky. Her experimental images of the moon, stars and sun draw on scientific and artistic uses of photography to illuminate the medium’s contradictory ability to both verify empirical evidence and to create poetic connections between our environment and ourselves.
The book features essays by Jimena Canales and Phillip Prodger, as well work from seven of Harper’s distinct series: Moonfall (As Imagined by the Off-Duty Ferryman in flight over the River Styx), 2001; Moon Studies and Star Scratches, 2003 – 2008; One Month, Weather Permitting, 2009; Twelve Hours from Winter and Spring, 2009; Sun/Moon (Trying to See through a Telescope), 2010 – Ongoing; and stills from her video Landshift, 2012.
