Lecture by Uta Barth November 7, 2012

Uta Barth (b.1958 in Berlin) is a contemporary photographer who lives and works in Los Angeles.

Barth has used photography exclusively in her aesthetic projects, experimenting with depth of field, focus, and framing to take photographs that are suggestive rather than descriptive, alluding to places rather than describing them explicitly.

Barth's photographs take the opposite approach to the famous Düsseldorf school of photographers, which include Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky. While they record their subjects in sharply objective archival detail, Barth’s images of interiors, buildings, suburban roads, or natural environments are often out of focus, cropped, and apparently empty of any foreground subject.

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