Dana Davis Photography

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KORE

I strive to achieve a balance between timelessness and immediacy; the abstract and the sensual; immortal youth and temporal flesh.  I wish to make something of beauty.

The image of the nude is of both self and other; of who we are and what we will, one day, no longer be.  We sympathetically feel the chill of that gooseflesh, the tension of those muscles, the pull of gravity on this flesh.  The "other", who might be possessed with eyes or arms.

Within these compositions, I wish to envelop and not be consumed by the power of this thing itself; to illuminate these bodies in such light as to make them at once more solid and more ethereal; to carefully incise with my frame to show exactly what is and also what may be imagined to be.  I find perfection in the moment and in the particular.  I have laid watch where these elements are likely to intersect and have tried to catch their reflections in my little box.

These photos are what they are precisely because of the individuals who stood before my camera and the creativity and spirit they brought to the work.  I thank them.  My prime notion is that these photographs honor these collaborators and, by extension, all women.  Thanks, also, to Ruth Bernhard for continuing inspiration and standards.

I know that many have worked this field.  Sometimes it seems like I can't go anywhere without plowing up someone else's Laocoon but I follow my eyes and my heart and the smell of freshly turned earth.

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I want to thank several MM models; Jazmine Dominique, KariMarie, Madame Bink, Ataraxia and An Asian Angel, for being such great contributions.
 
These prints presently on my page are shot on Fuji Acros 120, developed in Edwal FG7 and printed 14in. by 14in. on Forte' Polywarm fiber based paper toned in selenium (for any darkroom techies still out there).  No grain, excellent resolution, beautiful high tones, blacks you could fall into.

Thanks for your interest!

Dana

BFA Arizona Start University
MFA Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Dana Davis Photography, Oakland, CA est. 1986
Berkeley City College, Part-time instructor

Clients include:
Bio-Rad Laboratories
Princeton Architectural Press (Snapshot Chronicles, 2006)
Mills College
Kaiser Permanente

Exhibitions include:
RAW Gallery, Oakland, CA "May", 2009
Wurster Hall UCB, Berkeley, CA "Through the Darkroom", 2009
Louie-Meager Art Gallery, Fremont, CA "Educated Eye",2009
Lexington Art league, Lexington, KY "Nude" 2009
Mesa Arts Center, Mesa AZ "Physical Presence", 2007
Cantoo, Berkeley, CA "Kore", 2007
Bade Museum, Berkeley, CA "Behold", 2006
Alameda Museum, Alameda, CA "Recent Work", 2004

Represented by:
SFMOMA Artists Gallery, San Francisco, CA

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