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'''Barbara Probst''' is a [[photographer]] and contemporary artist, born in [[Munich]] in 1964. She lives and works in [[New York]] and Munich. Probst’s images use multiple points of view by employing as many as twelve cameras and tripods, arranged around the subject, to photograph multiple points of view captured in separate images but taken simultaneously with a single [[radio-controlled]] shutter release. "All of the images of a series present different views of the same place or event at the same moment."<ref>Conversation between Barbara Probst and Johannes Meinhardt on July 27, 2006 in: “Barbara Probst – Exposures”, ed. by [[Steidl|Steidl-Verlag]] in cooperation with Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.</ref> While traditional photography directs the viewer to see a single image, Probst’s sequences are composed of a series of separate, though related images incorporating multiple perspective of a single moment.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1810306,00.html Kugler, Jeffrey, Time Magazine, May 29, 2008]</ref> Her photographs cause viewers to experience a shift in time while reconsidering their presence in physical space. "Barbara Probst embroils us in different possible interpretations; focusing on a specific moment in time… she directs our attention to the time before or after…"<ref>[http://www.camera-austria.at/zeitschrift.php?id=1078493231&mainsub=beitrag&bid=1079018486 Braun, Reinhard.“An Exposure of Photography, Barbara Probst's Exposures“, Camera Austria/International #85, p.7-18]</ref> Her work disregards photography’s standard concept of “decisive moment,” and instead references cinema’s practice of multiple cameras to create movement and diversion.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_9_44/ai_n26865809/?tag=content;col1 Brian Sholis "Barbara Probst: Murray Guy". ArtForum, May, 2006]</ref> |
'''Barbara Probst''' is a [[photographer]] and contemporary artist, born in [[Munich]] in 1964. She lives and works in [[New York]] and Munich. Probst’s images use multiple points of view by employing as many as twelve cameras and tripods, arranged around the subject, to photograph multiple points of view captured in separate images but taken simultaneously with a single [[radio-controlled]] shutter release. "All of the images of a series present different views of the same place or event at the same moment."<ref>Conversation between Barbara Probst and Johannes Meinhardt on July 27, 2006 in: “Barbara Probst – Exposures”, ed. by [[Steidl|Steidl-Verlag]] in cooperation with Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.</ref> While traditional photography directs the viewer to see a single image, Probst’s sequences are composed of a series of separate, though related images incorporating multiple perspective of a single moment.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1810306,00.html Kugler, Jeffrey, Time Magazine, May 29, 2008]</ref> Her photographs cause viewers to experience a shift in time while reconsidering their presence in physical space. "Barbara Probst embroils us in different possible interpretations; focusing on a specific moment in time… she directs our attention to the time before or after…"<ref>[http://www.camera-austria.at/zeitschrift.php?id=1078493231&mainsub=beitrag&bid=1079018486 Braun, Reinhard.“An Exposure of Photography, Barbara Probst's Exposures“, Camera Austria/International #85, p.7-18]</ref> Her work disregards photography’s standard concept of “decisive moment,” and instead references cinema’s practice of multiple cameras to create movement and diversion.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_9_44/ai_n26865809/?tag=content;col1 Brian Sholis "Barbara Probst: Murray Guy". ArtForum, May, 2006]</ref> |
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Probst also questions how the history of photography has trained viewers. Probst guides viewers to go beyond their expectation that images have been altered in [[Photoshop]] or simply repeated. Along with artists like [[Uta Barth]] and [http://www.davidzwirner.com/artists/57/ James Welling], Probst encourages viewers to doubt the truth associated with classic photography. She has consistently worked with the same group of actors over many years. Instead of creating a documentary, as would a photographer like [[Sally Mann]] or [[Walker Evans]], Probst prevents viewers from reading her body of work as a continuous narrative. |
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She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, most recently at [[:fr:Domaine de Kerguehennec|FRAC Brittany, Domaine de Kerguehennec]], Bignan, France, [[Madison Museum of Contemporary Art]], Madison, WI <ref>[http://www.mmoca.org/exhibitions/exhibitdetails/barbaraprobst/index.php Barbara Probst: Exposures December 6, 2008 to March 8, 2009]</ref> and the [[Museum of Contemporary Photography]], Chicago. Her work was featured at the [[Museum of Modern Art]], New York, in the 2006 “New Photography” exhibition.<ref>[http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/3 MOMA, "New Photography" September 21, 2006–January 8, 2007, The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor]</ref> Her work is also included in the MOMA collection.<ref>[http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A30506&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1 MOMA Collection online]</ref> Other solo exhibitions include Murray Guy,<ref>[http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/2009/04/20/090420goar_GOAT_art?currentPage=4 The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, Galleries--Chelsea, April 20, 2009]</ref> New York, [http://www.stills.org/ Stills Gallery], Edinburgh and a midcareer survey at the [[:de:Oldenburger Kunstverein|Kunstverein Oldenburg]], Germany; G Fine Art, Washington D.C.; Jessica Bradley Art+Projects, Toronto, Canada; Kuckei+Kuckei, Berlin; and Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich. She has had three solo exhibitions at Murray Guy Gallery in New York, most recently in 2009 featuring two new multi-paneled works, Exposure #55: Munich, Waisenhausstrasse 65, 01.17.08, 1:55 p.m and Exposure #56: N.Y.C., 428 Broome Street, 06.05.08, 1:42 pm. |
She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, most recently at [[:fr:Domaine de Kerguehennec|FRAC Brittany, Domaine de Kerguehennec]], Bignan, France, [[Madison Museum of Contemporary Art]], Madison, WI <ref>[http://www.mmoca.org/exhibitions/exhibitdetails/barbaraprobst/index.php Barbara Probst: Exposures December 6, 2008 to March 8, 2009]</ref> and the [[Museum of Contemporary Photography]], Chicago. Her work was featured at the [[Museum of Modern Art]], New York, in the 2006 “New Photography” exhibition.<ref>[http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/3 MOMA, "New Photography" September 21, 2006–January 8, 2007, The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor]</ref> Her work is also included in the MOMA collection.<ref>[http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3AAD%3AE%3A30506&page_number=1&template_id=6&sort_order=1 MOMA Collection online]</ref> Other solo exhibitions include Murray Guy,<ref>[http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/art/2009/04/20/090420goar_GOAT_art?currentPage=4 The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, Galleries--Chelsea, April 20, 2009]</ref> New York, [http://www.stills.org/ Stills Gallery], Edinburgh and a midcareer survey at the [[:de:Oldenburger Kunstverein|Kunstverein Oldenburg]], Germany; G Fine Art, Washington D.C.; Jessica Bradley Art+Projects, Toronto, Canada; Kuckei+Kuckei, Berlin; and Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich. She has had three solo exhibitions at Murray Guy Gallery in New York, most recently in 2009 featuring two new multi-paneled works, Exposure #55: Munich, Waisenhausstrasse 65, 01.17.08, 1:55 p.m and Exposure #56: N.Y.C., 428 Broome Street, 06.05.08, 1:42 pm. |
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Revision as of 04:47, 14 April 2013
Barbara Probst is a photographer and contemporary artist, born in Munich in 1964. She lives and works in New York and Munich. Probst’s images use multiple points of view by employing as many as twelve cameras and tripods, arranged around the subject, to photograph multiple points of view captured in separate images but taken simultaneously with a single radio-controlled shutter release. "All of the images of a series present different views of the same place or event at the same moment."[1] While traditional photography directs the viewer to see a single image, Probst’s sequences are composed of a series of separate, though related images incorporating multiple perspective of a single moment.[2] Her photographs cause viewers to experience a shift in time while reconsidering their presence in physical space. "Barbara Probst embroils us in different possible interpretations; focusing on a specific moment in time… she directs our attention to the time before or after…"[3] Her work disregards photography’s standard concept of “decisive moment,” and instead references cinema’s practice of multiple cameras to create movement and diversion.[4]
She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, most recently at FRAC Brittany, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI [5] and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Her work was featured at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in the 2006 “New Photography” exhibition.[6] Her work is also included in the MOMA collection.[7] Other solo exhibitions include Murray Guy,[8] New York, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh and a midcareer survey at the Kunstverein Oldenburg, Germany; G Fine Art, Washington D.C.; Jessica Bradley Art+Projects, Toronto, Canada; Kuckei+Kuckei, Berlin; and Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich. She has had three solo exhibitions at Murray Guy Gallery in New York, most recently in 2009 featuring two new multi-paneled works, Exposure #55: Munich, Waisenhausstrasse 65, 01.17.08, 1:55 p.m and Exposure #56: N.Y.C., 428 Broome Street, 06.05.08, 1:42 pm.
References
- ^ Conversation between Barbara Probst and Johannes Meinhardt on July 27, 2006 in: “Barbara Probst – Exposures”, ed. by Steidl-Verlag in cooperation with Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.
- ^ Kugler, Jeffrey, Time Magazine, May 29, 2008
- ^ Braun, Reinhard.“An Exposure of Photography, Barbara Probst's Exposures“, Camera Austria/International #85, p.7-18
- ^ Brian Sholis "Barbara Probst: Murray Guy". ArtForum, May, 2006
- ^ Barbara Probst: Exposures December 6, 2008 to March 8, 2009
- ^ MOMA, "New Photography" September 21, 2006–January 8, 2007, The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor
- ^ MOMA Collection online
- ^ The New Yorker, Goings On About Town, Galleries--Chelsea, April 20, 2009
Selected bibliography
- Barbara Probst: Exposures, [monograph], Steidl-Verlag in cooperation with Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, 2007. ISBN 978-3-86521-392-1
- Hall, Emily. „Barbara Probst at Murray Guy Gallery“, Artforum summer 2009, p. 338/339
- Braun, Reinhard. „Barbara Probst“ in Photo Art, published by Aperture, New York; p. 346-349. ISBN 978-1-59711-062-4
- Schessl, Stefan. „Back to The Beginning, On Barbara Probst´s Photographic Series“, solo show catalogue published by Kunstverein Cuxhaven, Cuxhaven, Germany, 2002