BARBARA CRANE. ENG ED

Published on the occasion of the first major retrospective of American photographer Barbara Crane (1928-2019) at the Centre Pompidou, this publication offers to rediscover a major work of the art scene, which spanned more than 60 years. This book, mainly dedicated to photographs from the first 25 years, presents both major series and several unpublished works.
Coming from the Chicago school and its formalist approach, Barbara Crane explored the field of possibilities of the medium in a singular protean language. Oscillating between a documentary approach and more experimental research, sometimes on the edge of abstraction, manipulating all media, hybridizing techniques, Crane never ceased to question photography.

Composed of fourteen series that illustrate Crane’s approach, the visual corpus is accompanied by critical texts by Julie Jones, curator and commissioner of the exhibition, by Françoise Paviot, who has long represented the artist in France, by a photographer and former student of Barbara Crane, Philippe De Jonckheere; as well as an interview with the artist conducted in 2019 by Agathe Cancellieri, gallery owner and historian of photography. All of them place her work in the artistic context of the time and in the history of the medium, testifying to the insatiable exploratory approach and generous personality of this major photographer.