Uta Barth Analysis

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Uta Barth Biography:
1958 – Present
Born in Belgium, Germany, Barth moved to the USA as a teenager and now lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Barth received the John Simon Guggenheim fellowship in 2004 – 2005, she also received the MacArthur Fellowship in 2012 and this award gives the recipient $500,000 which is paid in quarterly instalments over 5 years. It is received by 20 to 40 American citizens/residents of any age each year, the recipients ‘show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work’.
Barth studied towards her ‘Bachelor of arts degree’ at the University of California, Davis and her ‘Master of fine arts’ from the University of California, Los Angeles. Barth later worked as a professor in the Art department of the University of California, Riverside from 1990 to 2008; she is currently a professor emeritus of Art at the University of California, Riverside.

Quotes:
“Specificity of time and place drop away and one starts to think about the picture, as much as what it is of” - Barth
“I have never been interested in making a photograph that describes what the world I live in looks like, but I am interested in what pictures (of the world) look like” – Barth
Analysis of Work:
Uta Barth created ‘In Between Places’ by photographing a scene and focusing on an empty foreground, this creates an out of focus image that seems almost foggy and hazy, forcing the image to be ambiguous and unclear. The technique of focussing on an empty foreground and blurring the image dwarfs the subject of the image and merges all elements into one creating a harmonious image. Barth challenges our preconceptions of the medium of photography as she stops it being a representative medium and forcing it to be a subjective medium, contrasting with our existing knowledge of photography and allows us to see what the picture looks like rather than

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