Fleshy Fungigram
Catalogue
- Year
- 1994
- Dimensions
- Each image, approx: 11 × 4 cm (4 3/8 × 1 5/8 in.); image overall: 57.2 × 45.4 cm (22 9/16 × 17 7/8 in.); paper: 60 × 47.8 cm (23 5/8 × 18 7/8 in.); frame: 66.5 × 45.6 × 3 cm (26 3/16 × 18 × 1 3/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Barbara Crane
Artist
Photography
Barbara Crane was an American photographer who developed a systematic approach to abstraction through the camera, creating grid-based compositions and close-up studies of natural and architectural forms. Working primarily in black and white, she explored repetition, pattern, and the photographic frame as a generative constraint rather than a documentary tool. Her practice emerged in the postwar period and remained committed to photography as a modernist discipline, treating the medium's technical possibilities as a conceptual starting point.
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Coloma to Covert
1992 · Gelatin silver print, from the portfolio "1991–1992 Graduate/Faculty Photography Portfolio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago"
Ithaca, New York
1988 · Instant photograph
Objet Trouvé, from the series "Objet Trouvé"
1983 · Platinum-palladium print
Objet Trouvé, from the series "Objet Trouvé"
1982 · Platinum-palladium print
Objet Trouvé
1982 · Platinum/palladium print
Objet Trouvé, from the series "Objet Trouvé"
1982 · Platinum-palladium print
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Barbara Crane
- Year
- 1994
- Dimensions
- Each image, approx: 11 × 4 cm (4 3/8 × 1 5/8 in.); image overall: 57.2 × 45.4 cm (22 9/16 × 17 7/8 in.); paper: 60 × 47.8 cm (23 5/8 × 18 7/8 in.); frame: 66.5 × 45.6 × 3 cm (26 3/16 × 18 × 1 3/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1994-118502
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified