Barbara Kasten
Born Chicago (USA) 1936
Work:
Kasten trained under the Bauhaus student Trude Guermonprez. She began by producing textile sculptures. She turned to photography in 1975. Her first works wer non camera images of photograms of geometric forms. In the late 1970s this led to three dimensional assemblies of the geometric elements which she initially photographed only for documentary purposes. In 1980 she began to produce photo installational pieces. Many of the surfaces are white and grey and the colours in her photographs are formed by illumination using seperate lighting for each colour.

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Connections to other photographers:
David Haxton (constructing scenes using simple materials e.g. paper and exploring lighting techniques and the effects on colour)
Winfred Evers (arranging and constructing sculputural photographs)
Arthur Tress (creating small staged scenes)
David Levinthal (designing small scenes)
Jan Groover
Naum Gabo (building/ constructing 3D forms)
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Barbara Kasten
Metaphase No 5
1986

Barbara Kasten
Metaphase No 7
1986

Barbara Kasten
Architectural Site No 8
1986