Barbara crane biography
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Barbara Crane
Barbara Crane (March 19, 1928 – August 7, 2019) was an American artist photographer born in Chicago, IL. Crane worked with a variety of materials including Polaroid, gelatin silver, and platinum prints among others. She was known for her experimental and innovative work that challenges the straight photograph by incorporating sequencing, layered negatives, and repeated frames. Naomi Rosenblum notes that Crane "pioneered the use of repetition to convey the mechanical character of much of contemporary life, even in its recreational aspects."
Crane began her studies in art history at Mills College in Oakland, California in 1945. She transferred to New York University in 1948. In 1950, she received her BA in art history from New York University. After recommencing her career in photography, Barbara Crane showed a portfolio of her work to Aaron Siskindin 1964 and was admitted to the Graduate Program in Photography at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of
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Barbara Crane was a pioneering internationally renowned art photographer and influential educator who explored photography as a vehicle for creative expression for over sixty years. A forerunner in experimental and sammanfattning photography, Crane explored numerous photographic processes throughout her extensive career. The result is an ongoing evolving body of conceptually consistent work, varied in approach and experimental in style. An early investigator of repetition and deconstruction of visual information, she experimented extensively with sequences, grids, scrolls, and large modular murals. Crane worked in many formats and materials ranging from intimate in size to large scale, utilizing such diverse photographic approaches as platinum-palladium, Polaroid processes, image transfers, gelatin silver and digital.
Born in Chicago in 1928, Crane studied at Mills College in California, completing her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art History at New York University, and in 19
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FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS
2001 Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowship Award in Photography.
1988, 1974 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Photography.
1987 YWCA Outstanding Achievement Award, Oct.
1985 Illinois Arts Council Completion Grant.
1979-present Polaroid Corporation Materials Grant.
1979 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Photography.
ACADEMIC & PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
CITY 2000, a commission by Chicago In The Year 2000, a not for profit organization.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Professor Emeritus, 1995-present.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Professor, 1967-1995.
Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel, Visiting Professor, Spring 1987.
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Visiting Professor, Fall 1983.
School of the Museum of Fine Arts of Boston, Visiting Artist, Spring 1979.
University of the Arts (Philadelphia College of Art), Visiting Professor, Spring 1977.
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