BARBARA PROBST: EXPOSURES
May 08, 2008 — June 07, 2008
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Exposure #53: N.Y.C., 555 8th Avenue, 10.31.07, 12 Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper
| Exposure #35: Munich studio, 07.29.05, 3:36 p.m., Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper
| Exposure #44: Barmsee, Bavaria, 08.18.06, 4:37 p.m Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper
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New York-based artist Barbara Probst began her career in her native Germany, where she continues to exhibit and work for periods annually. Probst’s ongoing Exposure series breaks the photographic moment into several points of view through the use of multiple cameras in a single shot. Photographic 'truth' is subject to fragmentation and cinematic drama, offering new interpretations of the fleeting photographic moment. Writing in Artforum critic Brian Sholis comments:
“(Probst’s) photographs evoke Christopher Williams’s deconstructions and Eadweard Muybridge’s time-lapse studies. But Probst’s fruitful investigation of photography’s characteristics (and the operations of human memory) distinguishes her from both precursors and peers.”
In 2006 Probst’s work was chosen for the New Photography 2006 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Her work was included in Camera Action at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Photography, where in 2007 she had a solo exhibition accompanied by a comprehensive book (Steidl, distributed by DAP).
Artists:
Barbara Probst