The Nature of Desire OOP Jean Harlow

Jean Harlow

Through the artist’s haunted eyes these images and artifacts are seen new again

96 four-color plates

The Tibetans is the first of its kind: a beautiful but disquieting portrait of both the splendor and ruin that mark contemporary Tibet

"Depictions of the West as a vast garden of romantic innocence and male possibility abound

The Nature of Desire OOP Jean Harlow"Photographers are always looking at things, but they never question the nature of the thing itself. A photograph of a corpse tells me nothing of the metaphysical implications of death, which are ultimately more significant than its appearance. A photograph of a person whom we find attractive does not reveal the complex nature of the desire that it provokes in us. we are constantly responding without examining the subtle mechanisms of our response.