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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.

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"This is a very dark, creepy, and beautiful book about light....which itself is an illuminating work of art" ~THE Magazine

Doug and Mike Starn Gravity of Light

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    A Hardback by James Crump, Jan Aman, Doug Starn

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      Publisher Rizzoli International Publications
      Published 9 October 2012
      ISBN-13 9780847838974
      978-0847838974
      ISBN-10 0847838978
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      Photographs: collections

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      "This is a very dark, creepy, and beautiful book about light....which itself is an illuminating work of art" ~THE Magazine

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