The Nature of Desire OOP Jean Harlow

Jean Harlow

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

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

Drawing from four American collections of photographs

95 sheet-fed gravure plates

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.