Zoe Leonard: Available Light by Zoe Leonard, Karen Kelly, Bar... - 9781954947047

Dancing Foxes Press

Zoe Leonard: Available LightAuthor(s): Zoe Leonard, Karen Kelly, Barbara Schroeder, Diedrich Diederichsen, Suzanne Hudson, Glenn Ligon, Eileen Myles\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Dancing Foxes Press, United States\nImprint: Dancing Foxes Press\nISBN-13: 9781954947047, 978-1954947047\nSynopsis\nAn exploration of the nature of visibility through a series of camera obscuras paired with silver gelatin prints of the sun\n\nIn the two related bodies of work that form this volumes centerpiece, New Yorkbased photographer Zoe Leonard (born 1961) poses fundamental questions about the medium of photography and the nature of sight. In a series of large-scale installations, the artist employed the principle of the camera obscura, pairing it with gelatin silver photographs of the sun. The image in Leonards room-size camera obscuras is immersive and continuous, shifting constantly in response to the fleeting light of the outside world and unraveling in the surrounding space to come into its full vi.