Photographer and Musician Barbara Ess, a Longtime Photography Professor at Bard, Remembered in Artforum, New York Times
Barbara Ess, "Hair," 2018, inkjet print, hair. Courtesy of 3A Gallery, New York, and Magenta Plains, New York.
“Ess was most widely known for her large-scale photographs made using a pinhole camera, a rarity in the art world but a device she used to great effect, producing blurred, haunting images that evoked variously dreamy anxiety, shattered romanticism, and the stuttering disquiet of the late twentieth century,” writes Artforum. “‘I think of my work as an investigation and it’s always concerned with the same question,” she told the LA Times. “Exactly what is the true nature of reality?’”
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