TCF Ep. 577 - Cig Harvey

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Cig Harvey (b.1973) is a British-born artist and writer, who lives in Maine, USA, working in large-format color photography and poetry, whose practice seeks to find the magic in everyday life. She uses both images and language to explore sensory experiences and elevate the everyday. Rich in an implied narrative, deeply rooted in the natural world, her work is devoted to the topic of what it is to feel. Cig has published four sold-out books: You Look at Me Like an Emergency (Schilt Publishing, 2012); Gardening at Night (Schilt Publishing, 2015); You an Orchestra You a Bomb (Schilt Publishing, 2017); Reveal (with Andrea Modica & Debbie Fleming Caffrey; Yoffy Press, 2020); and Blue Violet (Monacelli / Phaidon, 2021). Websites Cig Harvey Debbie Fleming Caffrey Madeleine Morlet Sponsors Charcoal Book Club Curious Society Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame by contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	This episode of The Candid Frame is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club.
0:13.0	Working with the most respected names of contemporary photography,
0:17.0	charcoal selects and delivers essential photo books to a worldwide community of collectors.
0:23.6	Each month, members receive a signed first edition monograph and an exclusive print to add to their collections.
0:31.6	Join the club by visiting Charlecoldbookclub.com and use the promo code the candid frame at checkout and receive a 10%
0:40.6	discount on your first membership payment.
0:49.0	Happy new year and welcome back for a new season of the Candid Frame. We are both excited and honored to bring
0:57.2	you more great conversations in our 16th year of production. And we began 2022 with a wonderful
1:04.3	conversation with fine art photographers Tick Harvey. She provides some wonderful insight into what it means not only to be creative,
1:14.6	but to live life creatively. She has published several amazing photography books, and her
1:20.5	latest is titled Blue Violet. This conversation with Sig is, I think, a great way to start a new year.
1:29.7	This is Ebody and X, and welcome back to The Candid Frame.
1:40.1	Well, I've been a great fan of your work for a long time and I'm really pleased to finally have a chance to sit and talk with you.
1:47.7	And going over your work, you know, there were so many things that was really fascinated by.
1:53.4	But one of the things I wanted to touch on, you know, you talk about early in your career about making the switch from taking pictures
2:05.6	of something and then transitioning to making pictures about something.
2:10.6	And I always have loved that statement. But I think one of the things to be able to begin to do that and do that effectively is to understand the language of photography.
2:23.3	And by that I don't mean just the mechanics of making the picture.
2:27.3	But just like if you're a writer, you have to understand the English language if you're writing in English. When you're using photography, you have to understand the language of photography.
2:38.6	And I'd love for you to sort of talk to us in terms of making that transition of making pictures of things and about things.
2:47.7	But at the same time, coming to understand the language of photography
2:54.1	and what tools you needed to sort of master in that respect
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