NORMALTOWN
by Tim Davis
Normaltown in 1977 was a sweaty, polyester place. We lived in a little rented house on Oglethorpe Avenue. My sister and I were loved and cared for, but poor, and there was danger on the ground. - Excerpt from Normaltown by Tim Davis
Artist Biography
Tim Davis is an artist, essayist, and songwriter based in Tivoli, NY. He has published many books of photographs, starting with Lots, a monograph from Coromandel Design, Paris, in 2002. Nazraeli Press published his Permanent Collection in 2005. Aperture published My Life in Politics in 2006, and I’m Looking Through You in 2021. The New Antiquity, the result of his year in Rome as winner of a Rome Prize, was published by Damiani Editore in 2009. Many publications have come from commissioned projects, such as Il Technologiro dell’ Ornitorinco, from Linea di Confine, Italy, in 2010, Quinto Quarto, Punctum Press. 2011, which was staged as a large exhibition at the MACRO Museum in Rome. Davis had a large retrospective of non-photography based projects at the Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College in 2019 called When We Are Dancing (I Get Ideas), which resulted in a catalog. Recently, The Fondazione di Sardegna commissioned him to make a work in Sardinia, which resulted in a book at show called Hallucinations. Normaltown, a project made in the state of Georgia, involving a book, and recorded music is forthcoming from Fall Line Press in 2025, as is Upstate Event Horizon, his decade-long project in Upstate New York. His photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, the High, Hirshhorn, Milwaukee Museums, the Walker Art Center, among many others.
Normaltown by Tim Davis












Normaltown by Tim Davis
Normaltown is a casebound limited edition fine art photobook from Tim Davis, one of America's greatest photographers working today. Davis describes the project as by far the most personal he has attempted as he seeks to return himself and us to those crushing and beautiful days when as a boy he relocated from upstate New York to Athens, Georgia. Normaltown includes 177 photographs and 5 essays by Davis about what it means to search for our past. Also included is a 45 vinyl record with two original songs written and sung by Davis while roaming through Georgia in search of his true point of departure.