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Howard Harris
Lives and works in Denver, Colorado, USA
www.hharrisphoto.com
In his carefully altered digital prints, American-born and birds, are contextualized in relation to how they
photographer Howard Harris takes on what is perhaps appear to the viewer’s eye, from a specific angle or
the most American of themes: the interrelationship point of view. From there, they are further distilled
of perception and technology. into purely repetitive patterns, yielding the essence of
how consciousness might structure an object without
For Harris, this problematic doesn’t reduce itself to reference to any particular object of phenomenon.
merely studying the effects of mediating devices
on how an object or landscape is perceived. Rather, W hile Harris is k now n to engage in f igurative
Harris’s artistry explores how the whole emotional depictions not unlike traditional representations of
complex underlying one’s personality integrates into landscapes, his work authentically takes off on its
the structural logic of architecture and design. As Harris own when he turns away from looking at or depicting
himself frames it, ”my aim [is to) to skillfully combine anything, and instead bodies forth the perceptual
technology and aesthetics in a way that expands the conditions in relation to which the awareness of a
viewer’s experience of photographic art.” concrete gestalt is clearly and distinctly constructed.
Harris’s compositions are less abstraction from Using his camera as an instrument towards obtaining
anything and more a showcasing of the conditions the essence of what underlies the consciousness of
that render perception possible. Architectural themes objects, he brings to light the universal forms that
pervade his works in the guise of sentient, dynamic are quietly implicit in the quotidian structures of
constructions. Ordinary objects, such as buildings everyday life.
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