
Octopus
- Publisher
- RVB Books
- Year
- 2022
- ISBN
- 978-2-492175-25-1
- Specifications
- Soft cover, single section sewn
24 x 32 cm
88 pages including 12 fold-out pages
24 colour photographs
21 black and white photographs
Design by Studio Mathias Clottu
Shortlisted, Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards 2023
The British visual artist Steve Harries explores the force and the fragility of the environment. Here he turns to mountain landscapes and their glaciers: over ten years he has made a body of work on mountains around the world, drawn to the geological processes behind their formation and to their morphological features, and his experience of still life has led him to close in on particular geological details. Discovering Marianne Moore's 1924 poem "An Octopus" changed the way he saw his own pictures and prompted him to arrange them differently.