Out of sight
Michael Hoppen Gallery to showcase photographs of the horizon
The horizon, where land and sky conspire to conceal the unknown, has long been a fixation of photographers. On the one hand it connotes distance, expansiveness, the epic curvature of the earth. On the other, it’s a symbol of the limitation of human perspective – a locking off of the infinite. At next month’s PAD art and design fair, leading photography gallerist Michael Hoppen will exhibit a range of photographs of the horizon, from a rare, early twentieth century album depicting an Alaskan town with all its period oddities, to mountaineer Bradford Washburn’s dramatic photographs of the Alaskan peaks. The centrepiece, though, is a rare and much sought after print by Hunter S Thompson. It shows Thompson’s wife Sandy and their dog Agar on a cliff-top in Big Sur, California, in 1961. The enigmatic photograph offers an intimate glimpse of one of the twentieth century’s great characters.
PAD London takes place in Berkeley Square and runs from 15-19 October