Animating Tim Davis's wry observations and the mesmerizing, color-pop geometry of his images is the photographer and writer's decades long, gimlet-eyed meditation on making pictures. As Davis states, "The camera is a machine that sees only surfaces. The world casts its spell, and the camera gobbles up its glamour, uncritically, with pure certainty, assuming there is nothing underneath." Davis's keenly observational images, interspersed with a selection of his writings on the medium-the joys and pitfalls of camera seeing-solidify I'm Looking Through You as an unabashed celebration of photography.

In I'm Looking Through You, famed photographer Tim Davis captures Los Angeles-the classic stand-in for the absurdity and vapidity of the American id-with the exuberant, spontaneous feel of 35 mm street photography.