Darren Almond: Fullmoon

Description In Darren Almonds Fullmoon photographs, the light of the moon is eerily enhanced, infusing the landscape with haunting ideas of nature and time. This expanded edition includes over 370 images – from Yosemite to the Japanese seashore, from Patagonia to Bermuda, and from the Alps to the English meadows – in a beautiful journey around the globe at night. In Fullmoon , the conceptual meets the poetic: in more than 370 photographs, British artist Darren Almond catches landscapes around the globe, under the particular light of a full moon. With the shutter kept open for over a quarter of an hour, rivers, meadows, mountains, and seashores are illuminated 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. Taken from a point of immersion in the natural surroundings, Almonds Fullmoon photographs allow the landscape to reveal its own history and suggest the direction its future might take. The series circles around the possibility of romantic ideas of nature 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. With long exposures, you can never see what you are shooting, Almond says, but you are giving the landscape longer to express itself. This updated edition covers all parts of Almonds Fullmoon series from the turn of the century up until today. It features 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. Customers Also Liked Related products Wranglestone by Darren Charlton Puppet by David Almond Kevin and the Blackbirds by David Almond Bone Music by David Almond Reviews