You An Orchestra You A Bomb
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (961 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 9053308938 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-31 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Cig Harvey’s hugely successful books You Look At Me Like An Emergency (2012) and Gardening At Night (2015) both sold out rapidly. Cig’s devotion to visual storytelling has lead to innovative international campaigns and features with New York Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar Japan, Kate Spade, and Bloomingdales. . She has been a nominee for John Gutmann f
In the way that twilight is not quite day and not quite night, the photographs of Gardening at Night are stories not yet fully developed, while still capturing the unexpected yet oddly harmonious moments that surround us daily." The International Wall Street Journal, 2015. "Though the subjects and setting are familiar to us, we cannot help but feel that Cig Harvey has led us through the looking glass to a world of wonder. Familiar domestic environments are gently manipulated to lend a sense of the surreal. In the way that twilight is not quite day and not quite night, the photographs of Gardening at Night are stories
You An Orchestra You A Bomb captures moments of awe, makes icons of the everyday, and looks at life on the threshold between magic and disaster. It is a book about paying attention to and appreciating the fragile present. Cig's photographs are interwoven with her intimate poetry in this hauntingly beautiful book.. Cig has always experienced the world viscerally but after a traumatic event, a raw heightened awareness of temporary nature of life permeates this new work.Through breathless moments of beauty, her images propel us to fathom the sacred in the split seconds of everyday. ig Harvey's third monograph, You An Orchestra You A Bomb, is a vibrant and bold book; possibly her most beautiful to date. It explores the photographer’s relationship with life itself