{"product_id":"day-for-night","title":"Richard Learoyd: Day for Night","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis deluxe, oversized monograph offers the most comprehensive collection of British photographer Richard Learoyd’s (born in Nelson, United Kingdom, 1966) color studio images to date—mostly portraits, but also including a handful of exquisite still lifes. The color images are made with one of the most antiquarian of photographic processes: the camera obscura, literally translated from Latin as “dark room.” Learoyd has created a room-sized camera in which the Cibachrome photographic paper is exposed. The subject is in the adjacent room, separated by a lens. Light falling on the subject is directly focused onto the photographic paper without an interposing film negative.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a perfectly clear, entirely grainless, larger-than-life image. Learoyd’s subjects, composed simply and directly, are described with the thinnest plane of focus, recreating and exaggerating the way that the human eye perceives; the images recall Dutch Master paintings in tone and composition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume includes more than 150 images, reproduced with the utmost care to capture the luminosity of the originals. It also includes an artist statement by Learoyd; a statement by Nancy Gryspeerdt, one of his subjects; and a text by Martin Barnes, curator of the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42514107596934,"sku":"13298","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0585\/5399\/1302\/files\/12229_1_1141f25e-99a7-4cdd-bad3-543726dbc140.jpg?v=1761262574","url":"https:\/\/store.aperture.org\/products\/day-for-night","provider":"Aperture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}