My most profound childhood memory involves reading a family bible. The illustrations, mostly Baroque-era paintings, did not function as a mere visual embodiment of the text. Rather, the pictures communicated in a far more powerful language, evoking both comfort and trepidation.
Statement: I'm currently working on a project involving the game of baseball, the role of the pitcher, the batter, and the baseball in flight. I'm particularly interested in the trajectory and visual cues that the batter uses to determine where the ball will end up and how we perceive this process. For example, the batter relies on cues such as the blurring pattern the moving ball makes, the posture of the pitchers, the point at which the pitcher releases the ball and expectations derived from previous pitches. In this series I am actively investigating how this can relate to broader understandings of human sight and perception.
Bobby Davidson received his MFA from Parsons the New School for Design 2010. His interdisciplinary practice deals with humor, photographic discourse, and consumer culture. Davidson’s work has been exhibited with The Center for Photography at Woodstock, The Humble Arts Foundation, The Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Cirrus Gallery in Los Angeles and the Aperture Foundation. In 2013, Davidson was selected for PDN's The Curator. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.
These works (Humanscape) show details of skin, torsions, transforming of our body. The photographs make us discover fantastic landscapes created by playing with the flexibility of the body. They reveal a pureness and simplicity of shapes. With this project, I present the body as a landscape, thinking not only of the visual comparison of forms, but thinking of the body as part of nature, belonging to it.
