#sharon harper

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Germany, Photo by Sharon Harper, 2000

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Germany, Photo by Sharon Harper, 2000

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Moon Studies and Star Scratches (2003-2007) Sharon Harper

Moon Studies and Star Scratches, No. 2 November 8, 2003

Moon Studies and Star Scratches, No. 3 December 31, 2003 - January 3, 2004

Moon Studies and Star Scratches, No. 8 November 16, 2004 - May 21, 2005

Moon Studies and Star Scratches, No. 9 June 4 - 30, 2005

Moon Studies and Star Scratches, No. 10 June 5 - 9, 2005

Moon Studies and Star Scratches, No. 14 July 1 - 7, 2006

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Moon Studies and Star Scratches, No. 6, June - September 2004 Saratoga Springs, New York; Middlesex, Vermont; Johnson, Vermont; Eden Mills, Vermont; Greensboro, North Carolina Sharon Harper (1966) Chromogenic prints, each 127 x 101.6 cm

"A professor of visual arts and environmental studies at Harvard University, Sharon Harper works with photography and video to explore the ways in which technology shapes our perceptual experience of the natural world. In her series Moon Studies and Star Scratches, she makes multiple exposures of the night sky on large format film at different times and locations to bend time and space into ethereal abstractions. In this hallucinatory image, stars appear as streaking lines of light and the moon registers as multiple shining crescents and dots puncturing an expanse of night sky composed of glowing orange and inky purple and black tones. Her photographs make visible a sense of time’s passing, suggesting both singular moments captured by a camera and the unfathomable time of light years." -- Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Sharon Harper’s series ‘Moon Studies and Star Scratches’ – poetic exploration of light and time through multiple-exposure photographs of the Moon and stars.

“The moon within these images links our understanding of time in terms of a monthly calendar with a celestial realm where time is measured in light years. Long exposures of stars used in some of the images further explore time. The exposures combine an understanding of time embedded within photography— a four-hour exposure of a star renders on film as a line of light so many inches long—with the fact that the starlight hitting the film is light years old. These images are an attempt to record a realm we can hardly fathom, but within a framework of time we can readily understand, bringing the human scale into relationship with the cosmic”.

The series is part of the book ‘From Above and Below’  

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Sharon Harper

Middlesex Vermont, Winter Solstice

21 december, 2012

(happy winter solstice:))