Steve Davis
American, b. 1957
Meth Consumes, 2010
Archival Inkjet print
16 x 20 in
2011.4.1
Museum purchase with funds from Mrs. Jean Messmer in memory of Dr. Charles Clemens Messmer by exchange
Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University
http://museum.marquette.edu/eMuseumPlus?service=ExternalInterface&module=collection&objectId=6902&viewType=detailView

The pull of anti-fandom—the mirror image of fandom, wherein the fan object is derided or mocked— can be as strong as that of fandom. People can become as passionate about their dislike of something as they are of their enjoyment of something else. Anti-fans may view a fan-object as undeserving of the attention in receives from its fans; they may create opposition, where they set their fan objects against their “anti-fan-object;” or they may be former fans who disapprove of some action or direction the fandom has taken. Regardless, anti-fans create many of the same things as fans, presented in opposition to the fan object. 

Steve Davis is a landscape and portrait photographer based in the Pacific Northwest, and the Coordinator of Photography and Media Curator at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. His images often depict forgotten individuals or those on the fringes of society, highlighting groups not usually associated with contemporary art. Meth Consumes is one of 22 pieces in Davis’s collection “As American Falls.” Over the course of a three year period, Davis traveled to American Falls, Idaho, documenting the small town where he grew up. About the town of American Falls, Davis said, “The economy, agricultural pollution, the wind, and the cold make this place not for the weak or faint hearted.” His images construct the decline of a town, and the spirit and struggle of a rural community bound by big agriculture and a changing way of life.