Contemporary Photographer Nancy Davenport

Nancy Davenport         Nancy Davenport

1965     Born Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada represented by Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery.

In 2009, she was the Henry Wolf Chair at Cooper Union NY and also teaches in the MFA programs at Bard NY, the School of Visual Arts NY and Yale University.

Her work is well know for its digital manipulation where the photo has been computerly-manipulated to create an illusion within the photo that looks real.  She creates these works by taking multiple scenes/images and digitally combines them together. I find that her piece from the Workers (leaving the factory) she combined pictures of both the Norwegian blue-collar workers and the out-sourced Chinese these are separate stills that have been digitally cropped together and set to a factory background to show the outsourcing of jobs. In some of her works the amount of manipulation is small in others its the whole still but she trys to make the scenes look natural to add realism to them.

I chose Nancy because her work was different and at first I didn't know that the work was digitally altered some I could tell but others looked so real I never would have thought they were changed.