Uta barth

Twenty-three MacArthur "Genius" Fellows were announced yesterday. Many deserve a closer look, no doubt. But I want to point out three in particular. First, Ethiopian-born novelist Dinaw Mengestu, whose first novel, The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears, is a simple, devastating story about a refugee in D.C. He owns a corner store. He's the loneliest imaginable character; the whole book is an echo chamber for this one isolated soul. He has two friends from the...

Uta Barth - Since the early 1990s, Los Angeles–based German born artist Uta Barth has examined photographic and visual perception—how the human eye sees differently f...

Thereafter Barth presented her nowhere near series featuring views looking out windows of her home onto a generic Los Angeles street at different times of…

A2 Photography Unit 4: Challenging Traditional Representation: Uta Barth (Images)

At first glance, Uta Barth’s photographs may resemble abstract paintings or appear as personal descriptions of her surroundings. In many ways they do possess these qualities, but upon closer examination they inform the viewer of much more. The photographs are Barth’s method of questioning and examining her perception, and how her surroundings may be influenced by her perception. Rather than describing and showing to us recognizable imagery, her work appears to display almost nothing. Barth’s…

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