“My primary project has always been in finding ways to make the viewer aware of their own activity of looking at something.”
-Uta Barth
untitled (nw11) from nowhere near, 1999
untitled (nw) from nowhere near, 1999
untitled (nw6) from nowhere near, 1999Since I have been back on the east coast, I have found myself obsessively taking photos trying to capture the quiet dreamy gloom of winter. A lot of this is done while staring out of the car window...traveling, dreaming, reflecting.
I woke up this morning to another rainy day in New Haven, CT and it got me thinking about Uta Barth- one of my favorite photographers. I found a great article from db artmag, ""Spanning Time: A Conversation with Uta Barth".
I woke up this morning to another rainy day in New Haven, CT and it got me thinking about Uta Barth- one of my favorite photographers. I found a great article from db artmag, ""Spanning Time: A Conversation with Uta Barth".
"Barth allows the viewer to idle. It is in this idling that intimacy unfolds along with a way of looking that lets you span time."
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