In I'm Looking Through You, famed photographer Tim Davis captures Los Angeles-the classic stand-in for the absurdity and vapidity of the American id-with the exuberant, spontaneous feel of 35 mm street photography. 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.
Animating Davis's wry observations and mesmerizing, color-pop geometry of the images is his decades-long, gimlet-eyed meditation on making pictures. As the photographer describes it, "I'm Looking Through You is a long poem celebrating the glamorous veneer of Los Angeles and its reach. This project claims, unapologetically, that the transactions between the world's surfaces and the camera's lens are among the known universe's most glamorous and profound."
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.
