The first major monograph in Europe devoted to the American photographer Barbara Crane (Chicago, 1928 - 2019), whose career spans more than sixty years. The exhibition at the Centre Pompidou brings together more than 200 works, some of which have recently been acquired by the Musée National d'Art Moderne. The exhibition focuses on the first 25 years of the artist's career, presenting hundreds of her major works, many of which have never been exhibited before. Barbara Crane's artistic practice has consistently explored photographic form and techniques, experimenting with silver gelatin and digital prints, Polaroid instant prints, photographic transfers, platinum-palladium prints, color, black and white. Her work is notable for the synthesis it achieves between the tradition of American straight photography and a more experimental sensibility, inherited from European avant-garde movements, typical of the teachings of the Chicago School. In 2009, she was honored with a major retrospective, presented at the Chicago Cultural Center, the Amon Carter Museum in Texas, and the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts.
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