Iceberg #1, Disko Bay, Greenland
Artist
Lynn Davis
(American, born 1944)
Date1988
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 28 x 28 inches (71.12 x 71.12 cm)
Framed: 45 x 42 inches (114.3 x 106.68 cm)
Framed: 45 x 42 inches (114.3 x 106.68 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4093
InscribedSigned and dated
Signed in artist's hand
Back of Mount
Artist's Stamp
"Photograph by Lynn Davis. Do not Reproduce without permission"
Back of Mount
Edition/State/Proof10/10
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Davis is known for her photographs of such colossal and mysterious subjects as the pyramids of Egypt and the icebergs of the Arctic. This work combines the majestic simplicity of a nineteenth-century vision with a distinctly contemporary mood of elegy. Begun at a time when her friend Robert Mapplethorpe was dying of AIDS, Davis's icebergs are symbolic of both the grandeur and transience of human life. No matter how large in size, every iceberg is destined to melt away into the surrounding ocean, eventually to vanish without a trace.
Copyright© Lynn Davis
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