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Barbara Ess (Barbara Eileen Schwartz) was born on 4 April, 1948 in Brooklyn, New York City, US, is an American photographer (1944–2021). Discover Barbara Ess's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As Barbara Eileen Schwartz
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Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 4 April 1948
Birthday 4 April
Birthplace Brooklyn, New York City, US
Date of death 4 March, 2021
Died Place Elizaville, New York, US
Nationality United States

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1944

Barbara Ess (born Barbara Eileen Schwartz; April 4, 1944 – March 4, 2021) was an American photographer.

She often used a pinhole camera and was known for her No Wave musical and editorial work.

Ess earned a B.A. at the University of Michigan and attended the London School of Film Technique.

Barbara Ess was known primarily for her large-scale ambient and shadowy photographs that were often made with a pinhole camera.

They usually were printed with just one earthy color, such as amber, or muted blue-black.

They are shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions and reviewed extensively.

Her images are intentionally left vague and unresolved.

As such, they initiate a range of emotions from dream anxiety and helplessness, to being captivated by a fantasy and the romantic aesthetic quality of her old-fashioned pinhole method.

Her pictures hark back to the nineteenth-century approach to fine-art photography known as Pictorialism and to the well-known amateur photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.

The Pictorialists and Cameron often included nature, women, and children as subject matter, creating tableau vivant imagery that evoked moody, open-ended narratives.

Of her intent as a photographer, Ess said "In a way I try to photograph what cannot be photographed."

She received grants from LINE, Creative Artists Public Service Program, and Kitchen Media, and fellowships from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts (photography).

1978

Ess performed and recorded post-punk music with bands starting in 1978, including The Static, Disband, Y Pants and Ultra Vulva.

She often performed at art galleries, at the Mudd Club and at Tier 3.

Just Another Asshole was a no wave mixed media publication project launched from the Lower East Side of Manhattan from 1978 to 1987.

Barbara Ess organized and edited seven issues of Just Another Asshole, which formed thanks to an open, collaborative submission process.

Issues 3 and 4 were co-edited by Jane Sherry and issues 5 through 7 were co-edited by Glenn Branca.

Issue formats include: zine, LP record, large format tabloid, magazine, exhibition catalog, and paperback book.

Ess' work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.

1980

Ess remained musically active throughout the 1980s, contributing tracks to Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine and collaborating with Peggy Ahwesh on 2001's Radio Guitar for the Ecstatic Peace! label.

1997

She taught photography at Bard College since 1997.