Photography

David Then, David Now

Micah Lexier

David Then & Now was produced by Plug In ICA in Winnipeg.

In Winnipeg in 1993, Micah Lexier put an ad in the local newspaper looking for males named David. Hundreds of people responded, and he asked the first David of each age, from age one to seventy-five, to be photographed at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. The result was an exhibition of life-sized portraits entitled A Portrait of David.

Ten years later, Lexier, with the help of the Winnipeg Free Press, located as many of the original Davids as possible and asked them to be photographed again. The result was David Then & Now, a series of diptychs in which each original photo was paired with the one taken a decade later.

The project was presented by Plug In ICA as a series of bus-shelter posters in downtown Winnipeg and in exhibitions at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, TrépanierBaer in Calgary and Birch Libralato in Toronto.

Click here to see the complete series.

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Micah Lexier

Micah Lexier is a Canadian artist living in New York City.


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