photography in all its forms

New York, New York

Artist Talk with Barbara Probst
Parsons Lecture Series

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
6:30 pm

FREE

Aperture Gallery & Bookstore
547 West 27 Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555

Aperture and the Photography Program in the School of Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons The New School for Design present a talk with artist Barbara Probst. In Probst?s photographs, the subject of the work becomes the photographic moment of exposure itself. Using a radio-controlled release system, she simultaneously triggers the shutters of several cameras pointed at the same scene from various viewpoints. The resulting sequences of images suspend time and stretch out the split second. The prismatic effect is heightened by the backdrops, which are often enlarged stills from well-known movies. The apparent narrative is confounded by the multiple locations, which further enhance the sense of artifice. Both illusion and device are always manifest—cameras, studio lights, and tripods are all visible. These, as well as the photographer(s) themselves, are both the object and viewpoint of a revelatory, photographic exposure.

Barbara Probst was born in 1964 in Munich, Germany and studied at the Akademie der Bildende Künste, Munich, and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. She has had numerous gallery exhibitions in Europe and the U.S., and her work was shown in New Photography at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2006. Solo exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin; Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France; Stills Gallery, Edinburgh; and Oldenburg Kunstverein, Germany. She lives and works in Munich and New York.