Details

Title

Church Window (from Permanent Collection)

Artist/Maker

Tim Davis (American, born Malawi, 1969)

Date

2003

Medium

Dye coupler print

Dimensions

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Credit

Gift of Eric and Bonnie Fishman

Accession #

2004.183

On View

Currently not on view

In his series Permanent Collection, Tim Davis photographed works of art on display at museums around the world as a means of playfully scrutinizing the visual quirks of viewing art in situ. Davis visited the High and photographed Walker Evans’s Church Window from an oblique angle, slightly distorting the perspective of the image and capturing the reflection of an adjacent gallery window on the framing glass. By accentuating the surface of Evans’s print, Davis encourages us to look at rather than through the photograph and, through his particular choice of subject matter, cheekily undermines the notion of a photograph as a window onto the world.