Artists

Barbara Crane

Press release

Bringing together over 200 works, this exhibition looks back at the first 25 years of the career of American photographer Barbara Crane (1928-2019).

Her body of work is remarkable for the synthesis it produces between the American tradition of straight photography and a more experimental sensibility inherited from the European avant-gardes, characteristic of the teachings of the Chicago school. This is demonstrated in her approach to the city – mainly Chicago – and its anonymous inhabitants, which she based on concepts of sequence and series, accidents and discipline, and explored tirelessly through a range of photographic techniques that she pushed to their perfectionist limits.