Barbara Probst
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| Exposure # 44: Barmsee, Bavaria,
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New York based artist Barbara Probst began her career in her native Germany. Probst’s Exposure series breaks the photographic moment into several points of view through the use of multiple cameras in a single shot. In Probst’s work photographic 'truth' is subject to fragmentation and cinematic drama, offering new interpretations of the classical fleeting photographic moment.
Her work was featured in New Photography 2006 at the Museum of Modern Art alongside artists Jonathan Monk and Jules Spinatsch. Probst had her first solo show in New York at Murray Guy gallery in 2004 and the same year was included in Camera Action at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography. She has shown her work throughout Germany in solo and group exhibitions.
In Camera Austria (No. 85/2004) critic Reinhard Bruan writes of Probst's work: "Facticity is enacted in the multi-part, large-format tableaux as a construct of photography itself. The �exposures� show that omissions and contradictions, that replacements and appropriations in particular, are part of photographic practice itself, and that they indicate how a picture not only shows something but also causes something else, an other picture to disappear ...".
Probst's work was recently featured in Barbara Probst: Exposures, a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago (2007). A hardcover publication on Probst's work accompanied this exhibition and is available through Distributed Art Publishers, New York (DAP).
Exhibitions
Pascal Grandmaison / Barbara Probst
BARBARA PROBST: EXPOSURES