Bird Songs

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Bird Songs

1999

Moyra Davey (Canadian, born 1958)

In a world where music is increasingly consumed in digital form, Davey is drawn to outmoded and analog objects as touchstones for memory. A stack of gently leaning vinyl records completely fills the frame of this photograph, inviting us to read their spines and imagine the sounds contained within.

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Object Details

Title:

Bird Songs

Date:

1999

Artist:

Moyra Davey (Canadian, born 1958)

Medium:

Chromogenic print

Dimensions:

Image: 13 15/16 × 17 7/8 inches (35.4 × 45.4 cm) Sheet: 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm)

Classification:

Photographs

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Marion Stroud Fund for Contemporary Art on Paper, 2013

Accession Number:

2013-53-1

Geography:

Probably made in New York, New York, United States, North and Central America

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