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California: Bevan Davies at Joseph Bellows Gallery

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Joseph Bellows Gallery presents a solo exhibition, Bevan Davies New York, through May 9th, 2015.
Bevan Davies studied photography with Bruce Davidson, at the University of Chicago in the early 1960’s and benefitted of some mentoring from Diane Arbus later in that decade. After working the street in both daylight and evening hours, photographing people at odds with society, with a hand camera, Davies changed his working focus to describe the physical environment of the street: the building facades, alleys and streets with a tripod mounted view camera.

This change in subject and approach resulted in Davies most celebrated work. Created in 1975/76 Bevan Davies’ architectural photographs situated themselves wholly within the dictum laid forth by William Jenkins, as “New Topographics”.    In fact, Davies writes of his approach as, “an effort being made to let the camera almost see by itself”. This notion was carried further by the late photographer, Lewis Baltz, who in 1976, referred to
Davies’ photographs as, “rigorously contemporary, while acknowledging a use of the camera which dates from the inception of the medium”.    The New York facades, taken in the early morning hours and devoid of people, describe spaces defined by light and shadow. They depict a specific time and place, as seen by the window dressings and signage, as well as portray a formal grace among the building’s details that are included within Davies’ camera frame. New York is the first comprehensive exhibition of Davies’ photographs in over two decades.
Davies photographs can be found in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Center for Creative Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, George Eastman House, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Harry Ransom Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of Photography.
In 2014, Nazraeli Press released Los Angeles, 1976, a monograph on Davies’ photographs from that region and era. The photographs depict the residential architecture and neighborhoods through nuanced arrangement and clarity.

EXHIBITION
New York by Bevan Davies
From March 9th to May 9th, 2015
Joseph Bellows Gallery
7661 Girard Ave
La Jolla CA 92037
United States

http://www.josephbellows.com

       

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