#4 still from "Weekend Campus" DVD. 2004
Still from WORKERS (leaving the factory), multiscreen installation, DVD continuous loop, 2005-08(blast-off animation)
The Canadian photographer Nancy Davenport was born 1965 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada but now resides in NYC (New York City, New York). She studied at York University in Toronto, Canada where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree she later got her Masters degree at the School of the Visual Arts in New York. She teaches at Bard College, the School of Visual Arts NY and Yale University and first appeared in 1992.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. In 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 as in the three above 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. That's what I like about her work but in some of her work the Weekend Campus series the amount of digital alteration she does is too much and looses the illusion feel that the others series has like the Workers.
#3 still from "Weekend Campus" DVD. 2004
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