(Knoxville, Tennessee, 1960 - )
2007
Chromogenic print
23 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (60.5 x 49.5 cm)
Collection of the Akron Art Museum
Gift of Emily Kass and Charles Weintrab in honor of Ralph Wileman
2013.7
To photograph exterior views using only moonlight, Sharp typically works with either a 4x5 or an 8x10 bellows camera and uses exposure times ranging from a few minutes to several hours. She explains that, “Because the film is allowed to ‘see’ the scene for so long, elements . . . lost to the human eye at the time of exposure are revealed in lavish detail after the negative has been processed.” Consequently, Sharp’s work achieves a hyper-real richness of color and light: “Colors shift. Light-reflective objects seem, instead, to emit their own light.”