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Amon Carter Museum Announces Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision |
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Barbara Crane (b. 1928), Tucson Desert, 1980. Courtesy of the Chicago Cultural Center © Barbara Crane, 1980.
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FORT WORTH, TX.- On February 14, 2009, the Amon Carter Museum will present Barbara Crane: Challenging Vision, the first major retrospective in more than 25 years of the photographers work. This exhibition features nearly 200 photographs, from Cranes internationally heralded early studies of human form through her chronicle of Chicago city life to her recent explorations of nature. The exhibition will be on view through May 10, 2009, before moving on to the organizers venue, the Chicago Cultural Center.
Barbara Crane has long been one of Americas most influential teachers and respected artists, says the Carters Senior Curator of Photographs John Rohrbach. Her highly experimental and tremendously varied photographs animatedly challenge photographys very character as a descriptive tool. This show exudes her infectious energy and imagination. Anyone who sees it will never look at photographs the same way again.
For more than 60 years, Crane (b. 1928) has been stretching the boundaries of photography. Through single images, sequences, grids and scrolls that range in size from intimate to grand, her photographs are dynamic, bold and abstract; they are vibrant depictions of the rural and urban, the familiar and esoteric.
Crane herself has explained the sources of her art:
Ive always been drawn to avant-garde, cutting edge art forms and have tried to find my inspiration in mediums other than photography, she says. As an art history student, I became interested in Asian art and was heavily influenced by Japanese scrolls, screens, prints and calligraphy. I was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wrights and Corbusiers daring modern architecture, by the innovative aesthetic of the German Bauhaus, by the custom-defying independence of modern dance, and by the music of John Cage.
To this day, I carry a small spiral notebook when attending a concert or visiting a museum to record what I find exciting for my future usesuch as the pattern of musical rhythms, the dynamic of color combinations and spatial relationships, and adjacencies of color in Renaissance and Medieval paintings. I translate these influences into the endless options offered by photography.
Crane has been the recipient of many grants, awards and fellowships, including National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1975 and 1988, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Photography in 1979, and an Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award in Photography in 2001. Her work is represented in major collections around the country, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y.; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Ariz.; and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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