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, stars leave their trails across 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 and Contemporary Art Department of the
Metropolitan Museum in New York, and an in-depth essay by writer and critic
Brian Dillon.
Art Edition of 60 numbered copies (No. 1–60), each signed by Darren Almond, with the signed original print Moonbow@Fullmoon (2011), photographed from the Brazilian side of the Iguazu Falls.Also available in two additional Art Editions with alternative signed prints.
