This retrospective of the photographer Uta Barth traces her use of the camera to explore both how and what we see.
Los Angeles–based contemporary artist Uta Barth (b. 1958) has spent her decades-long career exploring the complexities and limits of human and mechanical vision. At first, her photographs appear to be deceptively simple depictions of everyday objects—light filtering through a window, tree branches bereft of leaves, a sparsely appointed domestic interior—but these images, visually spare yet conceptually rigorous, emerge from her investigation of sight, perception, light, and time.
In this richly illustrated monograph, curator Arpad Kovacs and contributors Lucy Gallun and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe chart Barth's career path and discuss her most significant series, revealing how she has rejected the primacy of a traditional photographic subject and instead called attention to what is on the periphery. The book includes previously unpublished bodies of work made early in her career that add much to our understanding of this important artist. Also included is Barth's most recent work, ...from dawn to dusk, an ambitious commission marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Getty Center.
Imprint: Getty Publications
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 279mm,
Width: 240mm,
ISBN: 9781606068052
ISBN 10: 1606068059
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 23 April 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword - Timothy Potts Introduction - Arpad Kovacs The Container - Lucy Gallun The Clarity of Confusion - Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe Seeing with Your Whole Body - Arpad Kovacs Plates * Early Work (1980-92) * Ground (1992-97) * Field (1995-98) * Untitled 98 (1998-99) * ...and of time (2000) * white blind (bright red) (2002) * Sundial (2007) * ...and to draw a bright white line with light (2011) * Compositions of Light on White (2011) * In the Light and Shadow of Morandi (2017) * Untitled 17 (2017) * ...from dawn to dusk (Getty Commission) (2022) Acknowledgments - Arpad Kovacs
Arpad Kovacs is assistant curator in the Department of Photographs at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
Reviews for Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision
""Both playful and thoughtful, Peripheral Vision is a fine introduction to an artist's oeuvre.""--Ho Lin ""Foreword Reviews"" (1/1/2024 12:00:00 AM)
