January 27, 2014
John Davies is known for his north of England landscapes.and the industrialisation of space. Those made between 1979 and 2005 show the complex scenery of post industrial and industrial Britain. He is widely regarded as Britain's leading landscape photographer, and has spent 30 years photographing the industrial and post-industrial landscapes of Britain.
John Davies, New Street Station, Birmingham, 2000
Both landscape painting and photography are underpinned by the ideal of the detached view, capturing the meaning of a place and a culture at a precise moment for ever. The assumption is the desire to see life clearly and to see it whole. Usually, the photographs are taken from an elevated position looking down.
John Davies, Stockport Viaduct, 1986
Black and white photography seems to belong not just to another era, but to another world and it seems antiquated in an era of digital colour photography.
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