ArtistAdam Davies
Potomac Electric Power Building
Date2016
MediumArchival pigment print, mounted and laminated
DimensionsImage Size: 50 × 40 in. (127 × 101.6 cm)
Framed Size: 51 3/4 × 41 3/4 in. (131.4 × 106 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2016.009.2
ClassificationsPhotographs
Locations
- District Department of Transportation (250 M Street SE)
DescriptionAdam Davies’ work features landscapes and architectural structures that are hidden, overlooked and on the periphery. These are solitary, strange spaces capable of surprising the viewer and subverting expectations. While empty of people, they bear marks of human presence. In photographing these spaces, Davies seeks to create images that articulate the past and future simultaneously, for as the material world is being replaced by a digital one, such ruins are what remain. Davies uses an 8x10-inch large format view camera, similar to those used in the late nineteenth century, to capture the level of detail that such spaces merit.
