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Barbara Crane
Bringing together over 200 works, this exhibition looks back at the first 25 years of the career of American photographer Barbara Crane (1928-2019).
Her body of work is remarkable for the synthesis it produces between the American tradition of straight photography and a more experimental sensibility inherited from the European avant-gardes, characteristic of the teachings of the Chicago school. This is demonstrated in her approach to the city 鈥� mainly Chicago 鈥� and its anonymous inhabitants, which she based on concepts of sequence and series, accidents and discipline, and explored tirelessly through a range of photographic techniques that she pushed to their perfectionist limits.
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Bringing together over 200 works, this exhibition looks back at the first 25 years of the career of American photographer Barbara Crane (1928-2019).
Her body of work is remarkable for the synthesis it produces between the American tradition of straight photography and a more experimental sensibility inherited from the European avant-gardes, characteristic of the teachings of the Chicago school. This is demonstrated in her approach to the city 鈥� mainly Chicago 鈥� and its anonymous inhabitants, which she based on concepts of sequence and series, accidents and discipline, and explored tirelessly through a range of photographic techniques that she pushed to their perfectionist limits.
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The Centre Pompidou presents the first major exhibition in Europe dedicated to internationally acclaimed American photographer Barbara Crane (b. Chicago, 1928 鈥� 2019), whose career spans more than sixty years.
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