You An Orchestra You A Bomb is the third monograph by photographer Cig Harvey. Part memoir, part poem and part love letter, this new book explores Harvey’s relationship with life through text and photography, combined to create an ode to the fragility and beauty of the present moment. The publication of this new book coincides with exhibitions of the work at Robert Mann Gallery, New York and Robert Klein Gallery. Each photograph in the book is a self-contained vignette, collectively suggesting a narrative through recurring themes and symbols. The use of text, both an introductory stream of memory and interspersed throughout the book, anchor the images in Harvey’s own personal experience, and yet each image tugs on the viewers’ own memory, suggesting a place they also knew. The symbols – birds, teeth, windows, water and
|
