Alex Harris, “Schoolhouse On Fire"
Alex Harris, co-founder of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and the author of eighteen books on photography, lived as a guest in remote Alaskan Yupik and Inuit communities between 1973 and 1978. Here the Artist captures the power of nature and its witnesses, the village schoolhouse on fire with no available water to extinguish the flames. A student at Yale of Walker Evans, Harris found his own path and in this poignant and dramatic photo shows his mastery of storytelling through the photographic medium.
Schoolhouse On Fire, Selawik, Alaska, 1974. Archival pigmented inkjet print from original negative on acid-free fine art paper, from a limited edition of 10. Image size: 15” x 15”, paper size: 20” x 24”. Larger sizes also available on request.
Alex Harris, co-founder of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and the author of eighteen books on photography, lived as a guest in remote Alaskan Yupik and Inuit communities between 1973 and 1978. Here the Artist captures the power of nature and its witnesses, the village schoolhouse on fire with no available water to extinguish the flames. A student at Yale of Walker Evans, Harris found his own path and in this poignant and dramatic photo shows his mastery of storytelling through the photographic medium.
Schoolhouse On Fire, Selawik, Alaska, 1974. Archival pigmented inkjet print from original negative on acid-free fine art paper, from a limited edition of 10. Image size: 15” x 15”, paper size: 20” x 24”. Larger sizes also available on request.
Alex Harris, co-founder of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and the author of eighteen books on photography, lived as a guest in remote Alaskan Yupik and Inuit communities between 1973 and 1978. Here the Artist captures the power of nature and its witnesses, the village schoolhouse on fire with no available water to extinguish the flames. A student at Yale of Walker Evans, Harris found his own path and in this poignant and dramatic photo shows his mastery of storytelling through the photographic medium.
Schoolhouse On Fire, Selawik, Alaska, 1974. Archival pigmented inkjet print from original negative on acid-free fine art paper, from a limited edition of 10. Image size: 15” x 15”, paper size: 20” x 24”. Larger sizes also available on request.