Doug and Mike Starn
Gravity of Light
Jan Aman author Doug Starn author Mike Starn author James Crump editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Rizzoli International Publications
Published:9th Oct '12
£35.00
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The first book to celebrate the full breadth of the Starn twins’ innovative photographic career. Defying categorization, Doug and Mike Starn combine traditionally separate disciplines such as science, sculpture, photography, painting, video, and installation. Gravity of Light focuses on the breadth of the Starns’ photographic work, from their critically acclaimed debut in the 1987 Whitney Biennial to their current exploration of light as a requisite for photography and vision and as a symbol of enlightenment. In their most recent installation, large-scale photographs are lit by the Starns’ carbon arc lamp—an adaptation of an 1804 model by British physicist Humphry Davy—which produces a brilliant point of light too dazzling for the naked eye.
"This is a very dark, creepy, and beautiful book about light....which itself is an illuminating work of art" ~THE Magazine
ISBN: 9780847838974
Dimensions: 264mm x 262mm x 20mm
Weight: 962g
144 pages