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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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