Moyra davey biography of abraham lincoln

Moyra Davey’s Outtakes, a series of 10 unique C-prints hung at eye level in two rows of five, begins with a profile of Abraham Lincoln, stamped into copper and surrounded by green and rose static and a few bulging letters.

In Copperheads, a series of photographs of pennies, Davey tightly focuses on the profile of Abraham Lincoln to capture the coins' deterioration, including.

Earlier this year, Davey began to photograph these pennies—seemingly accidental portraits of Abraham Lincoln—and print them on her now signature aerograms.

It has born the portrait of Abraham Lincoln since It was the first time an American coin featured a face, overcoming a long-standing.

There are her Copperheads, extreme close-up views of American pennies, Abraham Lincoln's portrait furrowed with scratches or discolored by human touch.

Produced during an earlier economic recession (one to which we can reconnect today), Davey's low-tech images focus on the profile of Abraham.

Ms. Davey folded the photo into sixths, taped it shut, wrote her New York address in the corner and mailed it to gallerist John Goodwin in Toronto. Unfolded again, the photo is left with eight squares of orange tape framing its canton and three postage stamps—one showing an eagle atop a clock and two a detail of Rockefeller Center—hanging from the president’s ear like a tribal earring.

The other nine photos are also close-ups of pennies, but each is slightly different. In one, the column of stamps hangs from his mouth like a Fu Manchu mustache, with a square of tape under his nose like a concurrent Charlie Chaplin; in another, a stamp of a Man Ray photo displaces the “American Clock.” The Great Emancipator is occluded by rusty scratches, smoothed with age, and