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You Look At Me Like An Emergency
Cig Harvey’s super-saturated staged color photographs sometimes test the limits of conceptual whimsy, while her hand-written texts alter between insight and syrupy solipsism.
Photographs byCig Harvey

Cig Harvey is a photographer driven by conceptual work that vibrates with super-saturated color and careful premeditated composition. She is clearly in control of her medium. Many of the images in this beautifully printed, hefty book linger pleasantly in your mind, long after you’ve set the book aside.

What mucks up the greatness, however, for me, is that the really wonderful images are mixed in with lots of other images that look as if they belong in a stock photo library — in other words, well-made photographs that were driven by a corny concept, or worked too self-consciously or too deliberately, so they end up seeming almost generic, forced, pedantic, or saccharine sweet.

You could think of this book, with its mixture of fanciful images and full-page hand-written ruminations, as a very personal visual journal jamming together small details of ordinary daily life, rocky romantic relationships, childhood memories, questions of identity, and emotional ups and downs.

To be fair, I think the artist is being honest and open — as well as a bit too self-indulgent. I would have been happier with a much tighter edit and a little more mystery.
 by Cig Harvey
144 pages, 74 photos in full color
Hardcover, 22 cm x 22 cm
Schilt Publishing
ISBN: 978-9053307717

Doug and Harriet. Rockport, Maine, 2010. © Cig Harvey.
The Channel Marker, Self Portrait. Eastern Shipping Lanes, Bermuda, 2004. © Cig Harvey.
The Cut Apple and Gingham Dress, Self Portrait. Clark's Island, Maine, 2003. © Cig Harvey.
Exit, Self Portrait. San Francisco, California, 2005. © Cig Harvey.
Deep Bay, Self Portrait. North Shore, Bermuda, 2005. © Cig Harvey.
The Daydream, Self Portrait. Watertown, Massachusetts, 2004. © Cig Harvey.
Bowl of Cherries. Rockport, Maine, 2007. © Cig Harvey.
The Palm Tree, Self Portrait. South Shore, Bermuda, 2004. © Cig Harvey.
Pool Bar, Self Portrait. Miami, Florida, 2005. © Cig Harvey.
The Diner, Self Portrait. Miami, Florida, 2005. © Cig Harvey.
Emie in the Truck. Rockport, Maine, 2008. © Cig Harvey.
White Witch Moth, Devin. Rockport, Maine, 2011. © Cig Harvey.
The Velvet Settee, Syd. Rockport, Maine, 2011. © Cig Harvey.
Devin and Fireflies. Rockland, Maine, 2011. © Cig Harvey.
The Pale Yellow Cadillac, Sadie. Portland, Maine, 2010. © Cig Harvey.
Flood Tide, Self Portrait. Mangrove Bay, Bermuda, 2005. © Cig Harvey.
The Weathervane, Self Portrait. Rockport, Maine, 2010. © Cig Harvey.
The Letter. Rockport, Maine, 2008. © Cig Harvey.
Our House at Night, Self Portrait with Doug. Camden, Maine, 2006. © Cig Harvey.
The Hope Chest, Self Portrait. Rockport, Maine, 2007. © Cig Harvey.

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