DANNY SINGER

Kincaid 2004, archival inkjet print

Edition 2/5

23 x 117 in, 58.4 x 297.2 cm

Framed

Value $15,000

Anonymous Donor Lot #09

Danny Singer is a Vancouver-based photographer residing on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. He is largely influenced by traditional documentary photography, but uses contemporary techniques to record small towns in Canada’s western Prairie provinces and the American Midwest. His photographs are presented as panoramas which are often composed of up to one hundred forty conjoined sequential images. Singer’s work can be found in public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and the Glenbow Museum.

In Singer’s photographs, each structure on the street is photographed to appear directly in front of the viewer, creating an unusual perspective with multiple vanishing points. Each piece is an accurate representation of the entire main street, including the scale of the architecture. The large size of this finished print allows viewers to immerse themselves in the fine details. Through his work, Singer encourages viewers to question physical relationships between diverse structures and the spaces between them, as well as between the town and the land it rests on. Singer’s works are celebratory expressions of Western culture. This piece, Kincaid, depicts the main street of Kincaid, Saskatchewan on a summer day. The blue of the sky is mimicked in the light blue of several of the buildings on the main street, creating a sense of quiet monotony synonymous with small towns on the Canadian Prairies.