Lunar lens: Darren Almond’s nocturnal nature series
In Fullmoon, the conceptual meets the poetic: British artist Darren Almond catches natural archetypes and silent landscapes in night photographs made under a full moon, with the shutter kept open for over a quarter of an hour. The long exposure time illuminates the landscape almost like daybreak, but the atmosphere is different: a mild glow emanates even from the shadows, star-lines cross the sky, and water blankets the earth like a misty froth. The enhanced moonlight infuses the pictures with a haunting quality, casting the landscapes in a sense of the sublime and in a contemplation both of time, and of the preciousness of our natural surroundings.
This book collects roughly 260 images which Almond captured following the full moon around the globe. The whole series circles around the possibility of Romantic themes today: majestic American mountains, austere Arctic ice fields, picturesque rocks by the seashore in Japan, and, most intimately viewed, the nature of Britain, whose painterly subjects are closest to home. This book covers all parts of the series from the turn of the century up until today, with an introduction by Sheena Wagstaff, head of the Modern and Contemporary Art Department of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and an in-depth essay by writer and critic Brian Dillon.
Also available in three Art Editions, all numbered and signed by the artist.
Text in English, French, and German
0 有用 湮没人群 2015-07-21 10:10:00
应该是今年最值得买的摄影集了
0 有用 X 2021-12-12 15:19:17
纸很好，但是很多照片都很无力
0 有用 Ranciere 2021-11-02 02:20:03
千月不变 long exposure as sculpting space
0 有用 重返闇夜 2022-07-03 20:31:34
@衡山和集，某些照片太震撼了。
0 有用 callitkarma 2023-08-09 03:50:05 上海
摘录其中一段非常喜欢的文字，和我翻阅这本摄影集时的心境也十分贴切：No one knows the mountain completely who has not slept on it. As one slips over into sleep, the mind grows limpid; the body melts; perception alone remains. One neith... 摘录其中一段非常喜欢的文字，和我翻阅这本摄影集时的心境也十分贴切：No one knows the mountain completely who has not slept on it. As one slips over into sleep, the mind grows limpid; the body melts; perception alone remains. One neither thinks, nor desires, nor remembers, but dwells in pure intimacy with the tangible world. (展开)
0 有用 callitkarma 2023-08-09 03:50:05 上海
摘录其中一段非常喜欢的文字，和我翻阅这本摄影集时的心境也十分贴切：No one knows the mountain completely who has not slept on it. As one slips over into sleep, the mind grows limpid; the body melts; perception alone remains. One neith... 摘录其中一段非常喜欢的文字，和我翻阅这本摄影集时的心境也十分贴切：No one knows the mountain completely who has not slept on it. As one slips over into sleep, the mind grows limpid; the body melts; perception alone remains. One neither thinks, nor desires, nor remembers, but dwells in pure intimacy with the tangible world. (展开)
0 有用 重返闇夜 2022-07-03 20:31:34
@衡山和集，某些照片太震撼了。
0 有用 X 2021-12-12 15:19:17
纸很好，但是很多照片都很无力
0 有用 Ranciere 2021-11-02 02:20:03
千月不变 long exposure as sculpting space
0 有用 飞翔的虎头鹰 2020-06-17 20:34:26
超大一本书。