Ala Ebtekar, Thirty-Six Views of the Moon
Ala Ebtekar, Thirty-Six Views of the Moon
Ala Ebtekar, Thirty-Six Views of the Moon
Ala Ebtekar, Thirty-Six Views of the Moon
Ala Ebtekar, Thirty-Six Views of the Moon
Ala Ebtekar, Thirty-Six Views of the Moon
Ala Ebtekar, Thirty-Six Views of the Moon
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Artwork by Ala Ebtekar
Texts by Alexander Nemerov, Kim Beil, and Ladan Akbarnia

Hardcover
10 x 14 inches
131 pages / 48 images
ISBN: 9798890180919

Thirty-Six Views of the Moon is a meditative collection of nighttime exposures. For this project, Ebtekar found and tore out pages from volumes spanning the last thousand years—ranging from poetry and science fiction to religious texts and philosophy—that reference the moon and night sky. He then worked with a photographic glass plate negative of the moon from the Lick Observatory archives in Northern California, treating each book page with Potassium ferricyanide and Ammonium ferric citrate to make their surfaces light-sensitive. Finally, Ebtekar would leave the sheets outside from dusk until dawn, using the UV-light emitted by the moon to create a contact cyanotype print layered with the cosmological texts on the found book pages.

In addition to the thirty-six cyanotypes, this volume features essays by Kim Beil, Alexander Nemerov, and Ladan Akbarnia, as well as an annotated index for this selection of images and a comprehensive bibliography of sources Ebtekar has used throughout the various iterations of this project.

 

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