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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Post Date: 03-08-2021