Uta Barth

Title: Field #23 (Part of series: Field and Ground)
Artist: Uta Barth
Medium: Photography
Year: 1998

Artist's Biography – Uta Barth was born in 1958 in Berlin, Germany. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. She generally shoots her images out of focus, cropped, and uses negative space as part of her subject. Her photographs create an illusion for the audience in a way that encourages them to develop their own meaning of the subject. Her philosophy is that the lens of the camera should capture the image in the same manner as the lens of your eyes, so her images recreate a image how it would appear in our peripheral field of vision: blurry.



Personal Reaction – Uta experiments with the depth of field, focus, and framing to create original works of art. She uses photography to display the aesthetic principles of her subjects, and does so in a manner that is extremely interesting and creative. I enjoy her work, and I commend her for developing her photographs in a way that may not be comfortable for all audiences, but instead of attempting to please the majority, remaining true to her personal style as an artist.




Name: Kathleen Martini