Cig Harvey: Emerald Drifters

70 CHF
2025
Unsigned
Cig Harvey: Emerald Drifters: 70 CHF
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Dimensions: 29.2 x 23.4
Pages: 224
ISBN: 978-1-58093-687-3
CHF 70.00
Following her celebrated monograph Blue Violet, Harvey continues her personal study of sensory experience, focusing on the ephemeral nature of light, pigment, and vision. 
 
These latest photographs are lush tableaux of signature subjects–flora, cakes, domestic interiors, and the human figure in the landscape–accompanied by prose vignettes on the science and art of color. 
 

‘This poetic and intimate volume catalogues transient pleasures and heartbreaks. Here, audiences are reminded of what it means to embrace being alive.’ – Aesthetica Magazine

 

Emerald Drifters fills me with awe and envy. Cig Harvey is not only an extraordinary imagemaker but a terrific writer. I turn each page filled with wonder and gratitude for the beauty and tenderness of her photographs; the empathetic and resonant observational powers of her words. – Mark Alice Durant, Publisher, Saint Lucy Books

 

‘The way Cig thinks and writes and makes photos all about color and light and art and life, wrapped up in this delicious package… I can’t get enough. It reminds me why I love photography, why I ache for midcoast Maine, why being a mother is extraordinary, that light and beauty is everywhere and that friends who inspire you are the greatest gift.’ – Morrigan McCarthy, Managing Photo Editor, The Wall Street Journal

 

'Emerald Drifters is so beautiful. I’ve always wondered what synesthesia felt like, and I imagine it would be a bit like waking up inside one of the photographs in this book.' – Stella Bugbee, Styles Editor, The New York Times

 

Essay by Ocean Vuong. Design by Jeanette Abbink. 
©Photographs Cig Harvey
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