Tim Davis: I'm Looking Through You - Hardcover

Davis, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1597114987 ISBN 13: 9781597114981

Publisher: Aperture, 2021

Synopsis

I’m Looking Through You is an expansive, visual poem celebrating the glamorous surface of Los Angeles and its reach.

Animating Davis's wry observations and mesmerizing, color-pop geometry of the images is his decades-long gimlet-eyed meditation on making pictures. As photographer and writer Tim Davis states, “The camera is a machine that sees only surfaces. The world casts its spell, and the camera gobbles up its glamour, uncritically, with pure certainty, assuming there is nothing underneath.” Davis’s keenly observational images, interspersed with a selection of his writings on the medium―the joys and pitfalls of camera seeing―solidify I’m Looking Through You as an unabashed celebration of photography.

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About the Author

Tim Davis (born in Blantyre, Malawi, 1969) lives and works in Tivoli, New York. He received a BA from Bard College, where he teaches, and an MFA from Yale University. He has presented solo exhibitions at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New York; White Cube, London; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; and Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Several monographs have been published of his work, including The New Antiquity (2010) and My Life in Politics (Aperture, 2006). He is recipient of the 2007–8 Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize and a 2005 Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Award.

From the Back Cover

I'm Looking Through You is an expansive, visual poem celebrating the glamorous surface of Los Angeles and its reach. Animating Davis's wry observations and mesmerizing, color-pop geometry of the images is his decades-long gimlet-eyed meditation on making pictures. As photographer and writer Tim Davis states, "The camera is a machine that sees only surfaces. The world casts its spell, and the camera gobbles up its glamour, uncritically, with pure certainty, assuming there is nothing underneath." Davis's keenly observational images, interspersed with a selection of his writings on the medium-the joys and pitfalls of camera seeing-solidify I'm Looking Through You as an unabashed celebration of photography.

Edition details

• Publisher: Aperture
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1597114987
• ISBN 13: 9781597114981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256