Marie Naples Maber
Philadelphia City Paper

“Blurred Vision" is an antidote to reality. Photographs are removed from the familiarity of framed focus and center instead on the "circle of confusion" in a calculated replacement of visual priorities.

Ten artists, who use a range of photographic methods, have works on view in "Blurred Vision" at The Print Center. The artists, selected by the center’s curator of prints and photographs, Jacqueline van Rhyn, use everything from handmade pinhole cameras to digital printing.

The American West provides the pull for Christopher Harris. "Many have documented the sprawl," he says. "My work concentrates on the beauty. I am interested very much in place, this is why I title my photographs by their location. However, I am trying to produce work that is, in its painterly qualities, a bit ethereal, like the hopes and aspirations we still seem to attach to the region."

Of the photographs on view, Harris’ most resemble paintings. His color has tremendous subtlety; his small images conjure great vistas of sublimity.