BARBARA CRANE

Pedway Notations
Archival Pigment Print
13 x 19

Barbara Crane is a renowned Chicago photographer with a 60 year retrospective at the Chicago Cultural Center. The exhibition is up from Oct. 3, 2009 to January 10, 2010.

What's your work about right now?
Specific accidental relationships. Walking leg/foot patterns in crowded places.

Who are your influences?

My past visual ideas.

Where do you go to come up with imagery?
Pre-Renaissance paintings. Everywhere. Painting, ancient art,
accidental images and my visual and technical mistakes.

and maybe tell a story if you want...whatever.

For instance, an early accidental overexposed picture of mine became
a springboard to doing overexposure with great seriousness applied to
different subject matter to see what would happen.

and add any info you think you'd want someone to know about you/yourart
My work is experimental, relatively abstract, searching and,
hopefully, uncomfortable.

Interview by Sara Heymann, sara@thechicagogrid.com