Tim Davis: I'm Looking Through You

by Tim Davis (Photographer)

I’m Looking Through You is an expansive visual poem celebrating the glamorous surface of Los Angeles and its reach. Animating Tim Davis's wry observations and the mesmerizing, color-pop geometry of his images is the photographer and writer’s decades long, gimlet-eyed meditation on making pictures. As 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.

256 pages, Hardcover

Published June 1, 2021

Reviews

[Angelo Greco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bellissimo. Intenso, vivace, poetico. Un viaggio nelle innumerevoli sfaccettature di Los Angeles e delle sue storie, i suoi luoghi e soprattutto i suoi "attori" in tutta la loro fierezza. Straordinaria la composizione.

[Brett · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had a few minor quibbles with some of the editorial decisions in this photo collection but the work is excellent overall. The horizontal frames are intriguing and I really loved all three of the written pieces.

[Peter · Rating 5 out of 5]

an extremely remarkable photobook filled with vivid, humorous imagery. the essays included in the book are, to me, as fresh and significant as what was found in Fuck Seth Price.