Hard Light
- Publisher
- Edward Ruscha
- Year
- 1978
- Specifications
- Glossy color wrappers
7 x 4 3/4 in (17.7 x 12.2 cm)
120 pages, 66 illustrations including one double spread
First edition of 3,560 copies
With Lawrence Weiner
A cast of three women is photographed across a loose, unresolved narrative shot through with harsh, unflattering studio lighting rather than the soft glamour typical of the genre it borrows from. Paired with fragmentary text contributed by a second artist, the images resist forming a coherent story, instead suspending its characters in a sequence of disconnected, glaring tableaux.