Lucinda Devlin

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Lucinda Devlin
Born1947 (age 7677)
NationalityAmerican
OccupationPhotographer

Lucinda Devlin (born 1947) is an American photographer. Devlin lives and works in Greensboro, North Carolina. [1]

Her mid-2000s project Field Culture documented American crop farming. [2] In her series The Omega Suites, she documented execution chambers across the United States. [3] [4] [5]

Her work is included in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, [6] the Whitney Museum of American Art, [7] and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. [8]

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References

  1. DeCwikiel-Kane, Dawn (26 January 2017). "Internationally known photographer Lucinda Devlin makes Greensboro her home". Greensboro News and Record.
  2. Booker, Maia (23 April 2014). "The Haunting Beauty of Farm Technology". The New Republic.
  3. Lopez, Robert (March 2017). "Sightlines highlights Lucinda Devlin's color photography". YES! Weekly.
  4. "Lucinda Devlin: Sightlines | George Eastman Museum". www.eastman.org.
  5. Rafferty, Rebecca. "Portraits of places". CITY News.
  6. "Lucinda Devlin: Electric Chair from Witness Room, Diagnostic and Processing Center, Jackson, Georgia". mfah.org.
  7. "Lucinda Devlin". whitney.org.
  8. "Lethal Injection Chamber from Family Witness Room, Parchman State Penitentiary, Parchman, Mississippi, 1998". SFMOMA.