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Lag av lys (Layers of Light) by Norwegian photographer Dag Alveng is a major photographic monograph published in 1995, presenting a selection of his black-and-white work from 1979 to 1994. The book was produced in connection with Alveng’s exhibition Layers of Light at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and represents the first substantial compilation of his photographs.
Spanning roughly fifteen years of artistic practice, the book explores Alveng’s distinctive attention to light, surface, and texture. His images often focus on ordinary interiors and everyday objects - worn floors, marked walls, empty chairs, and quiet architectural details—where traces of human presence and time become visible through subtle variations of light and shadow. Rather than documenting specific places, the photographs invite contemplation and interpretation, balancing careful observation with a poetic sense of atmosphere.
The photographs are reproduced in high-quality duotone and quadratone black-and-white printing, emphasizing fine tonal gradations and the material quality of light. The publication includes a text by filmmaker and writer Michael Almereyda, adding a reflective literary dimension to the visual work.
Layers of Light functions both as a retrospective overview and as a meditative exploration of how light transforms the seemingly ordinary into images of quiet intensity and lasting resonance.
Pages 126
Hardback
Size 28 × 33 cm
ISBN 9788273844231
1995
Lag av lys (Layers of Light) by Norwegian photographer Dag Alveng is a major photographic monograph published in 1995, presenting a selection of his black-and-white work from 1979 to 1994. The book was produced in connection with Alveng’s exhibition Layers of Light at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter and represents the first substantial compilation of his photographs.
Spanning roughly fifteen years of artistic practice, the book explores Alveng’s distinctive attention to light, surface, and texture. His images often focus on ordinary interiors and everyday objects - worn floors, marked walls, empty chairs, and quiet architectural details—where traces of human presence and time become visible through subtle variations of light and shadow. Rather than documenting specific places, the photographs invite contemplation and interpretation, balancing careful observation with a poetic sense of atmosphere.
The photographs are reproduced in high-quality duotone and quadratone black-and-white printing, emphasizing fine tonal gradations and the material quality of light. The publication includes a text by filmmaker and writer Michael Almereyda, adding a reflective literary dimension to the visual work.
Layers of Light functions both as a retrospective overview and as a meditative exploration of how light transforms the seemingly ordinary into images of quiet intensity and lasting resonance.
Pages 126
Hardback
Size 28 × 33 cm
ISBN 9788273844231
1995