Tim Davis's 2021 Photobook 'I'm Looking Through You' Celebrates Los Angeles Surface Glamour

Photographer and writer Tim Davis published 'I'm Looking Through You' on June 1, 2021, a 256-page hardback visual poem exploring Los Angeles's glamorous surfaces. The book contains 159 images alongside Davis's writings on photography, presenting his decades-long meditation on camera vision. Davis describes the camera as a machine that uncritically consumes surface glamour. Born in Blantyre, Malawi in 1969, Davis lives in Tivoli, New York, teaches at Bard College where he earned his BA, and holds an MFA from Yale University. His solo exhibitions have appeared at White Cube in London, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art in New Paltz, New York, the Knoxville Museum of Art in Tennessee, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. Previous monographs include 'The New Antiquity' (2010) and 'My Life in Politics' (Aperture, 2006). Davis received the 2007–8 Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize and the 2005 Leopold Godowsky Jr. Color Photography Award. The book measures 6.5 x 9.2 x 1 inches and carries ISBN 9781683952398.