“Photography is the art of the fleeting, an attempt to catch hold of happiness. However futile that attempt may be, we still try to grab hold of time, but time and memory are fickle.”- Alice Q. Hargrave
Paradise Wavering by fine art photographer Alice Q. Hargrave is a photographic stream of consciousness that travels through lush flora, fauna, and tropical biospheres, exploring the fugitive nature of experience, time, light, and the photographic medium itself.
By interspersing her current photographs with re-photographed vintage source material from her own family archive of 8 mm films and snapshots, Alice Hargrave melds together past and present, while alluding to an uncertain future where environmental angst pervades.
Leading us through prairies, mangroves and tropical forests, the photographs are inspired by the heroic landscapes of 19th century photography, vernacular family pictures and the first color processes such as Autochromes. Hargrave embraces, but also re-contextualizes and re-imagines, the clichés of documenting family travels, where photography’s role historically was to harness the exotic, capture “Kodachrome” moments, and often shoot from a moving car — the classic American Road Trip.
BOOK
Alice Q. Hargrave: Paradise Wavering
Essay by Allison Grant, interview by Kendra Paitz
Poems by Sandra Binion and Ralph J. Mills Jr.
Excerpts from Rebecca Solnit’s seminal book A Field Guide to Getting Lost
Hardcover, Linen Bound
ISBN 13: 9781942084167
8.5 x 11.5 inches
137 pages, 61 4/4 images
$45.00 US
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