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Lucinda Devlin was born on December 18, 1947, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.
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Lucinda Devlin: The Omega Suites
(During the early 1990s, Lucinda Devlin systematically too...)
During the early 1990s, Lucinda Devlin systematically took photographs of gas chambers, injection rooms, electric chairs, and death row cells in the rural United States. She entitled the resulting series The Omega Suites, alluding to the final letter of the Greek alphabet as a metaphor for the finality of execution. More than just a critique of the death penalty, Devlin's austere, haunting images extend that critique to an American society in which 70 percent of the citizens support the death penalty. In her photographs, death row and the death chambers are symbolic of American culture and the American psyche. An electric chair in one image, placed in the center of a room amid emptiness and clinical sterility, resembles nothing so much as a throne. Elsewhere, the somber cross-like stretcher used for lethal injections invokes the execution as religious ritual, complete with a captivated audience. Icy and compelling, these photographs paint a clearly defined picture of a world we often choose not to see.
https://www.amazon.com/Lucinda-Devlin-Suites-Susanne-Breidenbach/dp/3882437596/?tag=2022091-20
2001
Lucinda Devlin: Water Rites
(German spa facilities are sites at which one can apparent...)
German spa facilities are sites at which one can apparently be cured of chronic illnesses. Whether they date from the nineteenth century, the post-war period, or today, these places are fast becoming leisure-time oases. In a new series, Lucinda Devlin has photographed the deserted interiors of these bathhouses, framing clinically sterile rooms meant for massages, baths, examinations and relaxation. These empty zones are silent testimonials to a healing industry that is thoughtfully tailored to people, even while its equipment subjugates them completely. Tellingly, they recall the rooms of Devlin's earlier series: the operating theaters, mortuaries and autopsy rooms in Corporal Arenas and the U.S. execution chambers in The Omega Suites. With her coolly remote photographs, Devlin presents the relationships between people and institutions, and then shows how certain facilities depersonalize those relationships. Water Rites conveys an insightful view into the - typically German? - mentality and source of our institutionalized humanity.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3882439289/?tag=2022091-20
2004
Lucinda Devlin: Lake Pictures
(Lake Project is a series of color photographs of Lake Hur...)
Lake Project is a series of color photographs of Lake Huron, one of the Great Lakes bordering the state of Michigan, by American photographer Lucinda Devlin. The pictures - taken from the same vantage point, during different seasons and at different times of day or night - explore the changing character and nature of the lake, in the interplay of day and season, wind, sun and moonlight upon the reflections on the water's surface and the variously colored glows of the atmosphere above. Precisely bisecting Devlin's square images, the thin line of the horizon suggests the immensity of the space between these two elements, pulling the viewer into the center of the photographs where they converge.
https://www.amazon.com/Lucinda-Devlin-Lake-Pictures/dp/3869309652/?tag=2022091-20
2019
Lucinda Alice Devlin
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Lucinda Devlin received her Bachelor of Science in English Literature/Art from Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, in 1971 and her Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the same school in 1974.
Career
From 1977 to the present Lucinda Devlin has been adjunct professor of photography at Syracuse University, New York. She was the director of photographic and illustration services at Eastern Michigan University in 1973-1974 .
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Lucinda Devlin: The Omega Suites
(During the early 1990s, Lucinda Devlin systematically too...)
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Lucinda Devlin: Lake Pictures
(Lake Project is a series of color photographs of Lake Hur...)
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Lucinda Devlin: Water Rites
(German spa facilities are sites at which one can apparent...)
2004
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Lucinda Devlin: The Omega Suites
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1971
Eastern Michigan University , Bachelor of Science in English Literature/Art Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States