Through my window

"There are times in our lives when serendipity accelerates events and the exceptional can occur. In September last year I sat next to the guest of a mutual friend at a lunch in Malaysia. He told me about an artist who had created a grand experiment, taking one million photographs in two years. What is more remarkable than this unprecedented feat is that the photographs were taken, and continue to be taken, from a single window.

The photographer Ahae (a name which means «child» in ancient Korean) has faithfully captured his vision of a landscape carefully preserved and protected for the last two decades. He invites us to see the extraordinary in the apparently ordinary. A change in light or a change in the weather can make an object appear quite different. The same water surface can resemble rock or a pool of mercury, the silhouette of a bird caught in the sunlight like a delicate drawing..."

Product details

• Authors: Ahae, Henri Loyrette
• Assisted by: Ahae (Photographs)
• Publisher: Assouline
• Languages: English, French
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.06.2012
• EAN: 9781614280712
• ISBN: 978-1-61428-071-2
• Dimensions: 300 mm x 340 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 2410 g
• Series: Legends
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Photography, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General