a little more on Uta..

As I was posting on Uta Barth I peeked in in some of the work her gallery Tanya Bonakder has online and I just got so seduced,
so inspired and just had to share more of her with all of you...


I am sure you all will be able to see why I love her work so much.
So simple....all that negative space...gorgeous.

Deceptively simple, Uta Barth's photographic works question the traditional functions of pictures and our expectations of them. By photographing in ordinary anonymous places - in simple rooms, city streets, airports and fields - Barth uses what is natural and unstudied to shift attention away from the subject matter, and redirect focus to a consciousness of the processes of perception and the visceral and intellectual pleasures of seeing.
words from here. a great article to read on her work

Sometimes I look at her images and think I have that same image on my negatives...and that makes me feel really good...

I get concerned.

With the gorgeous quality of autumn light I am being inspired to pick up my camera much more often of late.
But sometimes I get concerned about the fact that in general I only photograph in my home...
will that be too repetitive? Especially when my home is a 750 square ft Brooklyn railroad apt.
Is it boring that viewers see the same white cabinets, rumpled bed, 1950's table, red couch...

And then I think I never worried when I took all my picture in the same studio every time.

And I always find comfort in knowing Uta Barth's work (directly below). She has made almost her entire career out of photographing by or out of the same window in her house.




I feel like I know her yellow couch as well as she does. and am actually disappointed when I go to her shows and it is not in any of the images, I look for it, I expect it, I want it.
And I never get bored of getting lost in her images.



So I will keep on photographing the ever changing light on my white cabinets, rumpled bed, and beat up red 1950's kitchen table.

I hope you don't mind.