Research Catalog

Title

Nightwatch : painting with light / Noel Kerns.

Author

Kerns, Noel

Publication

[Darlington] : Carpet Bombing Culture, 2013.

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Details

Description

1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations; 27 x 27 cm

Summary

Noel Kerns is a Texas-based photographer who specializes in capturing ghost towns, decommissioned military bases, and industrial abandonments by night. His images incorporate two distinct photographic techniques: time-exposure by the natural light of a full moon, and the artful application of artificial light, vividly painted into the scene while the cameras shutter is open. Light-painting is all about vision, says Kerns. Or more accurately, pre-vision. Its the ability to imagine the scene you want to emerge from the darkness, and then to execute it in such a way as to match or surpass what you imagined. Nightwatch: Painting with Light is the first book from Kerns, one of the worlds foremost practitioners of the art of light-painting. Join him as he ventures into the darkness of the American Southwest, exploring remote desert ghost towns under a full moon, or prowling the abandoned, seemingly post-apocalyptic structures of Americas industrial wastelands. In his photographs, Kerns captures the world surreal: flowing cloud-streaks in a night sky, the laser-like light trails of cars racing by on a highway, a raging ocean shoreline rendered eerily calm through long exposure.

Subject

• Landscape photography
• Photography, Artistic
• Light art
• Night in art
• Abandoned buildings > Pictorial works
• art photography
• light art
• Abandoned buildings

Genre/Form

Pictorial works.

ISBN

• 9781908211026
• 1908211024

OCLC

• ocn813862023
• 813862023
• SCSB-1755122

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library