Fullmoon@Kitandara: Mountains of the Moon

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Fullmoon@Kitandara: Mountains of the Moon

2010

Darren Almond (British, born 1971) Printed by Asa Muir-Harmony (American, born 1979) Published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco

Darren Almond made an extended series of photographs shot solely by the light of the full moon. In 2010, working with Crown Point Press in San Francisco, he produced photogravures of four such images made around the source of the Nile River in Uganda. He loved the otherworldly, giant plants found in the wet, tropical landscape. Their strangeness is augmented in this print by the shadowy nighttime setting and the long exposure required by moonlight, evidenced by the white streaks tracing the movement of stars during the exposure. This color photogravure—an impressive technical feat—required four separate printings, one for each pigment used in the work.

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Object Details

Titles:

Fullmoon@Kitandara: Mountains of the Moon

Date:

2010

Artists:

Darren Almond (British, born 1971) Printed by Asa Muir-Harmony (American, born 1979) Published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco

Medium:

Color photogravure

Dimensions:

Image: 20 × 20 inches (50.8 × 50.8 cm) Sheet: 29 1/4 × 28 1/2 inches (74.3 × 72.4 cm)

Classification:

Photographs

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Lynne and Harold Honickman Fund for Photography, 2013

Accession Number:

2013-45-1

Geography:

Published in San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America

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