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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 American
2004
Not on view
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.

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  • Title: Moon Studies and Star Scratches, No. 6, June - September 2004 Saratoga Springs, New York; Middlesex, Vermont; Johnson, Vermont; Eden Mills, Vermont; Greensboro, North Carolina
  • Artist: Sharon Harper (American, born Stamford, Connecticut, 1966)
  • Date: 2004
  • Medium: Chromogenic print
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 50 × 40 in. (127 × 101.6 cm)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2019
  • Object Number: 2019.53
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Courtesy of the artist and Rick Wester Fine Art
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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