Booth #C46
Grand Palais
3 avenue du Général Eisenhower
75008 Paris
Grand Palais
3 avenue du Général Eisenhower
75008 Paris
Cob is pleased to announce its debut at Paris Photo, 2024, with new works by British photographer Jack Davison.
Showcasing the breadth of Davison's oeuvre, which effortlessly embraces digital, analogue, black and white and colour photography – the gallery's presentation for Paris Photo will introduce, for the first time, selected works from Davison's colour archive as pigment prints.
These colour new editions will be displayed alongside works from his black and white archive printed as photopolymer gravures, forming part of his ongoing Photographic Etchings series.
Jack Davison depicts the human figure, architecture, animals, objects, landscapes and townscapes; yet his subject is always photography itself. Uncovering the surreal and the sensual in everyday life, Davison's use of chiaroscuro, framing and exposure as instruments of abstraction draws on the history of photography. Parallels have also been made with Max Ernst and Man Ray, keying him into a Surrealist inheritance.
Davison received his first major commission from Kathy Ryan, photography editor of the New York Times in 2016. His publication Photographs (Loose Joints, 2016) is now in its third reissue. Solo exhibitions include Photographic Etchings, Cob Gallery 2022 and Revisiting Pictures at Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam 2016. In 2024, Davison's works were acquired for permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Showcasing the breadth of Davison's oeuvre, which effortlessly embraces digital, analogue, black and white and colour photography – the gallery's presentation for Paris Photo will introduce, for the first time, selected works from Davison's colour archive as pigment prints.
These colour new editions will be displayed alongside works from his black and white archive printed as photopolymer gravures, forming part of his ongoing Photographic Etchings series.
Jack Davison depicts the human figure, architecture, animals, objects, landscapes and townscapes; yet his subject is always photography itself. Uncovering the surreal and the sensual in everyday life, Davison's use of chiaroscuro, framing and exposure as instruments of abstraction draws on the history of photography. Parallels have also been made with Max Ernst and Man Ray, keying him into a Surrealist inheritance.
Davison received his first major commission from Kathy Ryan, photography editor of the New York Times in 2016. His publication Photographs (Loose Joints, 2016) is now in its third reissue. Solo exhibitions include Photographic Etchings, Cob Gallery 2022 and Revisiting Pictures at Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam 2016. In 2024, Davison's works were acquired for permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Jack Davison will take part in a programmed talk at Paris Photo, moderated by Jean-Baptiste Talbourdet and Marie-Pierre Lannelongue, with Malick Bodian, Alexandre Guirkinger and Senta Simond.
The Conversations will take place on the 1st floor of the fair, in the Auditorium.
09 September
3:30pm
Jack Davison will take part in a programmed talk at Paris Photo, moderated by Jean-Baptiste Talbourdet and Marie-Pierre Lannelongue, with Malick Bodian, Alexandre Guirkinger and Senta Simond.
The Conversations will take place on the 1st floor of the fair, in the Auditorium.
