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Barbara Crane
Visions of Enarc, 1986
Polaroid polacolor print from 35 mm Polachrome transparency
Edition: 1 of 1
20 x 24 inches
Courtesy of Barbara B. Crane Trust
Estimated value: $7,500
Starting bid: $5,000
Buy it now: $9,000
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Barbara Crane (American, 1928-2019)
For more than sixty years, Barbara Crane was one of Chicago’s most well-known photographers, creating highly formal, often abstracted images of a wide array of subjects including people, natural objects, and the urban landscape. Her work is often concerned with chance, time, and visual idiosyncrasies in nature. Crane worked closely with the Polaroid Corporation for over a decade. She would receive photographic materials in exchange for the resulting images to be added to the Polaroid Collection. This arrangement also included access to the 20 x 24 Polaroid Studios in Boston and New York City. With the help of technicians at the studio, the massive 20 x 24 inch view camera was reconfigured to function more like an enlarger. Crane was then able to project 35mm slides onto the 20 x 24 inch Polaroid print material. By creating this unique technique, she was able to make images, like Visions of Enarc (1986), of subject matter not accessible in a studio environment.
Barbara Crane completed her BA in art history at New York University (1950) and then, under the advising of Aaron Siskind, her MS at Illinois Institute of Technology (1966). The recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Photography grant, two National Endowment for the Arts grants, and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award in Photography, Crane’s work has been exhibited internationally and is included in the permanent collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Japan; and many others.
