This Art Edition of 60 numbered copies (No. 1-60), each signed by Darren Almond, comes with a signed C-print Fullmoon@Horseshoe Bend (2012), photographed from the banks of the Colorado River in Arizona during a full moon.

In Fullmoon, the conceptual meets the poetic: in more than 260 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. The enhanced moonlight infuses the landscapes with a sense of the surreal or the sublime, and with haunting ideas of time, nature and beauty.

The 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 Almond's fullmoon series from the turn of the century up until today. It features an introduction by Sheena Wagstaff, head of the Modern andContemporary Art Department of the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and an in-depth essay by writer and critic Brian Dillon.

Also available in two additional Art Editions, with alternative C-prints.

The photographer

Darren Almond was born in 1971 in Wigan, England. He is a conceptual artist whose work in photography, film and sculpture revolves around themes of personal memory, cultural history and time. His major solo exhibitions include shows at the ICA and the Tate Britain in London, Kunsthalle Zürich, K21 Düsseldorf, Museum Folkwang Essen, SITE Santa Fe, and Art Tower Mito in Japan.

作者简介

达伦·艾蒙德1971年出生于英国威根，1993年毕业于温彻斯特艺术学院，现居住并工作在伦敦。从1998年开始，达伦·艾蒙德创作了Fullmoon系列摄影作品。一次偶然的机会使达伦·艾蒙德产生了在夜间拍摄的想法，他选择了月亮作为唯一光源，并采用超低速快门长时间曝光的方法拍摄（15分钟或更久的曝光时间），这些取远景的照片看起来很诡异，沐浴在一种让人错觉到了白天的惊人璀璨的光线下，同时让景色充满了神秘感和诗情画意。他拍摄的第一张Fullmoon照片是在旅行中取景于法国境内的圣维克托尔山，塞尚晚期的绘画灵感就主要来源于此。

此后，达伦·艾蒙德通过旅行，远离灯火辉煌、喧嚣的都市，走进了被黑暗笼罩的大自然景色当中继续他的作品创作。他追随着诸如William Turner、Caspar David Friedrich等艺术家的足迹，并用摄影这个不同的媒介展现了前者的艺术理念。

达伦·艾蒙德不仅捕捉了常人看到的风景而且通过加长曝光时间展现了那种只能通过相机才能呈现的万物沐浴在明亮的白月光下的美。这种特殊的月光效果恰恰像是抓住了时间的流动。除却明亮的色彩和城市的喧嚣，达伦·艾蒙德的神秘的作品带有忧郁的意味，不仅形成于月光的普照更来自其周围历史的交互。Fullmoon系列作品中，充分展现了达伦·艾蒙德对历史地理的兴趣。

Darren Almond. Fullmoon. Art Edition 'Horseshoe Bend'

C-print, 47 x 47 cm (18.5 x 18.5 in.) and clothbound hardcover volume in a clamshell box, 48 x 48 cm (18.9 x 18.9 in.)

ISBN 978-3-8365-5137-3
Multilingual Edition: English, French, German

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