Barbara Crane – Challenging Vision

Author:   Barbara Crane ,  Abigail Foerstner ,  Kenneth C. Burkhart
Publisher:   City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs
ISBN:  

9780938903420


Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 June 2009
Format:   Hardback
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Barbara Crane's subjects are commonplace: a piece of driftwood, a cluster of wild mushrooms, a crowd of commuters rushing for the train. The resulting photographs, however, are far from ordinary. They are imaginative, peculiar, jarring, and, like their creator, defy easy explanation. For more than sixty years, Crane has forged her own path as a photographer. Lacking a darkroom, she began using Polaroid materials. Lacking suitable models, she paid her children to pose. ""Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision"" celebrates this Chicagoan's wide-ranging art with a gorgeous collection of more than 250 color and black-and-white photographs. 'Once I developed my first roll of film in 1948', Crane notes, 'nothing else mattered'. Spanning the breadth of her career, from early studies of the human form to long, narrow landscapes evoking Asian scrolls, from silver gelatin and platinum prints to present-day digital works, the book is by far the largest and most definitive overview of her work to date. Rounded out by a critical analysis by John Rohrbach and a biographical essay by Abigail Foerstner, it will delight and challenge anyone interested in contemporary photography."

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Author:   Barbara Crane ,  Abigail Foerstner ,  Kenneth C. Burkhart
Publisher:   City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs
Imprint:   City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs
Dimensions:   Width: 29.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 27.40cm
Weight:   2.034kg
ISBN:  

9780938903420


ISBN 10:   093890342
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 June 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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John Rohrbach is senior curator of photographs at the Amon Center Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. He is the author or coauthor of several books, including Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke and Eliot Porter: The Color of Wildness. Abigail Foerstner teaches science and environmental journalism at Northwestern University. She is the author of Picturing Utopia: Bertha Shambaugh and the Amana Photographers and James Van Allen: The First Eight Billion Miles.

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