Uta Barth

Uta Barth
Born1958
Berlin, Germany
NationalityGermany, United States
EducationUniversity of California, Davis;
University of California, Los Angeles
Known forPhotography
AwardsMacArthur Fellows Program
Websiteutabarth.net

Uta Barth (born 1958 :3)[1] is a contemporary German-American photographer whose work addresses themes such as perception, optical illusion and non-place. Her early work emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s, "inverting the notion of background and foreground"[2] in photography and bringing awareness to a viewer's attention to visual information with in the photographic frame. Her work is as much about vision and perception as it is about the failure to see, the faith humans place in the mechanics of perception, and the precarious nature of perceptual habits. Barth's says this about her art practice: “The question for me always is how can I make you aware of your own looking, instead of losing your attention to thoughts about what it is that you are looking at."[2] She has been honored with two National Endowments of the Arts fellowships, was a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship[3] in 2004‑05, and was a 2012 MacArthur Fellow.[4] Barth lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

  1. ^ Great Women Artists. Phaidon Press. 2019. p. 51. ISBN 978-0714878775.
  2. ^ a b Lee, Pamela M. (2004). Uta Barth. Higgs, Matthew., Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy. London: Phaidon. ISBN 0-7148-4153-6. OCLC 52738167.
  3. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Uta Barth". Retrieved April 14, 2020.
  4. ^ "Class of 2012 – MacArthur Foundation". macfound.org. Retrieved April 14, 2020.