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From Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College

  1. Chinese Lanterns by Joyce Tenneson, Image 1.

    Joyce Tenneson

    Chinese Lanterns, 2020

    Archival pigment print

    22 x 17 in (55.88 x 43.18 cm)

  2. THE EQUAL AND INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF ALL by Ann Hamilton, Image 1.

    Ann Hamilton

    THE EQUAL AND INALIENABLE RIGHTS OF ALL, 2017

    Blind embossment with hand-applied ink

    35.5 x 25 in (90.17 x 63.5 cm)

  3. A-Bombed Comb, Hiroshima, from After Hiroshima by elin o'Hara slavick, Image 1.

    elin o'Hara slavick

    A-Bombed Comb, Hiroshima, from After Hiroshima, 2008

    Cyanotype

    9.75 x 7.875 in (24.77 x 20.0 cm)

  4. Washcloth, from the portfolio "Utopia" by Linda Headlee, Image 1.

    Linda Headlee

    Washcloth, from the portfolio "Utopia", 1989

    Xerox transfer and screenprint on paper

    22.5 x 14.875 in (57.15 x 37.78 cm)

  5. Mary Ellen Mark

    Girls on Motorcycle, from the portfolio "In America", 1988

    Gelatin silver print

    13.875 x 10.875 in (35.24 x 27.62 cm)

  6. Untitled, from Jamaica Botanical Series by William Eggleston, Image 1.

    William Eggleston

    Untitled, from Jamaica Botanical Series, c. 1978

    Chromogenic print

    13.875 x 16.875 in (35.24 x 42.86 cm)

  7. Frolicking Friends by Chris Kakas, Image 1.

    Chris Kakas

    Frolicking Friends, 1975

    Etching on paper

    17 x 14.75 in (43.18 x 37.47 cm)

  8. Louis Dotson, Lorman by William R. Ferris, Image 1.

    William R. Ferris

    Louis Dotson, Lorman, 1968

    Gelatin silver print

    17 x 11 in (43.18 x 27.94 cm)

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About the artist

Graham Ovenden

British

b. 1943

British painter, photographer, photo-historian, and writer. Ovenden studied at the Royal College of Music and Southampton School of Art and graduated from the Royal College of Art (1968). He was a founder of the Brotherhood of Ruralists (1975). His work is extremely controversial, and he was prosecuted but not found guilty for a production of hoax calotypes which he claimed were of Victorian street children (1980). In the 1990s, his work was investigated by the US and UK authorities as possible child pornography. (2009) He was charged by the UK for creating indecent images, but the trials collapsed. A few years later, Ovenden was found guilty of six charges of indecency with a child and one charge of indecent assault relating to the girls who modelled for him (2013). Many of his pieces have been either confiscated by the British government, banned by both countries, destroyed, or rendered inaccessible.