Richard Barnes Presentation

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Richard Barnes

b. 1953 - Newark, NJ


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1963 - Polaroid introduces color film


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-Architectural Photography


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1989 - Loma Prieta earthquake, California


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1995 - Legion of Honor

documented its

renovation after

the earthquake


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It was discovered that the museum had been built upon what was once Golden

Gate Cemetery. What began as architectural documentation turned into aninvestigation into the largest post-gold rush era cemetery ever excavated. Over

two years, applying his experience from the excavations in Egypt, Barnes created abody of work documenting the disinterment of hundreds of burials from beneath

the foundations of the museum.


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Animal Logic Series 2004

Barnes followed the logical steps and turned to the collections of different

institutions for his work. Barnes began a body of work based on the role of themuseum in contemporary culture.

-Egyptian Museum in Cairo

-Smithsonian Institution,

-Museum of Comparative Anatomy in Paris

-Carnegie Museum of Natural History


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My work is all about containment.



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This work looks at the museum as a container of

the celebrated and the forgotten, the odd and theeveryday, representative of the dreams and

aspirations of the person, culture or nation that

assembled it.


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1997 - Unabomber trial


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Unabomber Cabin (Sacramento) 1998

In 1998 Barnes was commissioned by the New York Times Magazine to

photograph the cabin of Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber. Kaczynski, ourhomegrown philosopher/terrorist now serves a life-sentence in prison for crimes

committed out of dedication to a cause, madness, or both.

In addition to Kaczynskis incarceration, his rural home was also seized, as ifarchitecture itself were to be put on trial. The cabin, representing that iconic idealof rural self-sufficiency and simplicity was, in this case, seen as a container of evil

and depravity.

Unabomber Site (Montana) 1998


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The cabin was shipped

across the country to beused as evidence in his trial.My work looks at historicaland contemporary artifacts

(in this case the cabinand its site), and using the

imagery and methods of

architecture /archaeologyit attempts to bridge the

gap between the banal and

the extraordinary, the cult

o f ce lebr i ty and theseduct i veness o f the

infamous.

Unabomber Exhibit A-D 1998


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Murmur 1 Nov. 15, 2005

2005 - Murmur

Starling

migrationin Rome


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Murmur 8 Dec. 14, 2005


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Murmur 14 Jan. 21, 2006


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Murmur 13 Jan. 20, 2006


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Timeline

1953 Born, Newark, NJ

1963 Polaroid color film introduced

1979 B.A. University of California, Berkeley

1979 Begins work as an architectural photographer

1989 Loma Prieta earthquake hits San Francisco Bay

1994 Photographs the renovation and cemetery excavation of the Legion of Honor

1995 Photographer for book on SFMOMA

1995 Architectural restoration photographer for National Endowment for the Arts

1996 Photographs the closed Stanford University Art Museum

1997 Unabomber trial

1998 Commissioned by New York Times Magazine to photograph Unabomber shed

2000 Unabomber, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

2001 Still Rooms & Excavations, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

2004Animal Logic, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco

2007Murmur, Hosfelt Gallery, New York

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my master photos:


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