“The world doesn’t resemble my photos”, even though the subject of her photos is the world, whether the pyramids in Egypt, the waterfalls in Venezuela, the ice in Greenland, the wide expanses of sand in China, or the temples in Palmyra, Syria. The American Lynn Davis (born in 1944) observes things from afar in order to underline their grandeur. Hers are symbolic and metaphorical journeys to places where humans are forced to question themselves about the very essence of phenomena.
The perfection of her images from a photographic point of view (Davis began her career apprenticed to Berenice Abbot) leads viewers to ask themselves about the nature of what happens: about life and death, the deepest meaning of existence. In her black and white photos, the outcome of observation pondered over time, the clarity of the material exalts the form of the subjects. And so we breathe in profound spirituality, a spirituality underlined by a particular use of light. (Angela Madesani). See biography
Available works
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Tomb of Xiaoling, Outside Beijing [China #19]
gelatin silver print, toned with sepia and selenium
110 x 108,5 cm -
Monastery, Petra, Jordan, 1995
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 102 cm -
Meroe, Sudan, 1998
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 101,6 cm -
Taitur, Entrance Way, Yemen, 1996
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 101,6 cm -
Ice house, Iran, 2011
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 102 cm -
Zoroastrian Fire Temple, Isfahan, Iran, 2001
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 102 cm -
Evening, NorthUmberland Strait XIII, 1995
gelatin silver print
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Crescent Moon Spring, Dunhuang, China, 2001
gelatin silver print, toned with sepia and selenium
91 x 233 cm
Ice
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Iceberg XXVIII, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2007
gelatin silver print
114,3 x 114,3 cm
144 x 144 x 5,5 cm with frame -
Iceberg VIII, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2004
gelatin silver print
91,4 x 91,4 cm
124 x 124 x 5,5 cm with frame -
Iceberg III, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2004
gelatin silver print
91,4 x 91,4 cm
124 x 124 x 5,5 cm with frame -
Iceberg XXIX, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2016
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 101,6 cm
134,5 x 121 x 4 with frame -
Iceberg XXXVII, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2016
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 101,6 cm
134,5 x 121 x 4 with frame -
Iceberg XXXVIII, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2016
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 101,6 cm
134,5 x 121 x 4 with frame -
Iceberg XXXIII, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2016
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 101,6 cm
134,5 x 121 x 4 with frame -
Iceberg XXXVI, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2016 © Lynn Davis
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 101,6 cm
134,5 x 121 x 4 with frame
Installations
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Recursions and Mutations, 2019
Vincenzo Castella · Lynn Davis · Jacob Hashimoto · Roberto Pugliese
installation view
Studio la Città – GAD Giudecca Art District, Venezia -
Installation view, 2012
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia, Venezia
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Installation view, 2011
Studio la Città, Verona
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Available works
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Tomb of Xiaoling, Outside Beijing [China #19]
gelatin silver print, toned with sepia and selenium
110 x 108,5 cm -
Monastery, Petra, Jordan, 1995
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 102 cm -
Meroe, Sudan, 1998
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 101,6 cm -
Taitur, Entrance Way, Yemen, 1996
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 101,6 cm -
Ice house, Iran, 2011
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 102 cm -
Zoroastrian Fire Temple, Isfahan, Iran, 2001
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 102 cm -
Evening, NorthUmberland Strait XIII, 1995
gelatin silver print
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Crescent Moon Spring, Dunhuang, China, 2001
gelatin silver print, toned with sepia and selenium
91 x 233 cm
Ice
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Iceberg XXVIII, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2007
gelatin silver print
114,3 x 114,3 cm
144 x 144 x 5,5 cm with frame -
Iceberg VIII, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2004
gelatin silver print
91,4 x 91,4 cm
124 x 124 x 5,5 cm with frame -
Iceberg III, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2004
gelatin silver print
91,4 x 91,4 cm
124 x 124 x 5,5 cm with frame -
Iceberg XXIX, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2016
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 101,6 cm
134,5 x 121 x 4 with frame -
Iceberg XXXVII, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2016
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 101,6 cm
134,5 x 121 x 4 with frame -
Iceberg XXXVIII, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2016
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 101,6 cm
134,5 x 121 x 4 with frame -
Iceberg XXXIII, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2016
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 101,6 cm
134,5 x 121 x 4 with frame -
Iceberg XXXVI, Disko Bay, Greenland, 2016 © Lynn Davis
gelatin silver print
101,6 x 101,6 cm
134,5 x 121 x 4 with frame
Installations
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Recursions and Mutations, 2019
Vincenzo Castella · Lynn Davis · Jacob Hashimoto · Roberto Pugliese
installation view
Studio la Città – GAD Giudecca Art District, Venezia -
Installation view, 2012
Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Venezia, Venezia
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Installation view, 2011
Studio la Città, Verona
