Photographer Uta Barth's chosen tool is the camera, but the art that has had the greatest impact on her? 'Sculpture and installation and painting. I don’t categorize media the way the world likes to.” Her retrospective is now showing at the GettyMuseum
Uta Barth is a photographer, and her chosen tool, the camera, is integral to the making and understanding of her work. But when asked about art that has had the greatest impact on her, she says, “I rarely think of photography. I think of sculpture and installation and painting. I don’t categorize media the way the world likes to.”
The photographs in “Ground,” for instance — the mid-1990s series that first earned Barth wide attention, through its inclusion in the Museum of Modern Art‘s New Photography exhibition and a solo presentation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles — whisper of place, but are conspicuously silent on persons or plot.
The sculptor Charles Ray had just started teaching at UCLA when Barth entered the program, and he was among several young faculty members that she befriended. The conversations between them were formative in her development of a practice centered around how the senses operate, not just the mind. Though Barth never had any formal interaction with him, “she has been a lifelong student of Irwin’s,” Kovacs says. Irwin, whose design for the Getty garden has been an evolving experiment in light, color and texture, was never far from Barth’s mind as she worked on a 2018 commission to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Getty Center.
Zaki photographs the found and built environment, digitally stitching together images to trouble the boundary between natural and unnatural, and to conjure a sense of duration. Barth too is deeply interested in expanding the photograph’s temporal moment, something she evokes through the use of sequenced images.
“The thing about great teachers,” says Paul Mpagi Sepuya, who studied with Barth at UCLA, “is that you keep their questions with you, and ask them of yourself so you don’t feel stuck.”
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