BARBARA HALL BLUMER
(pronounced Bloomer)
Artist’s Statement
Black
and white photography lends itself to the kind of expressive documentary
that interests me. I use my camera intuitively to make observations
about people and nature. My photos are comments…ranging from a
concern about the busyness of life that can infect us ... to let’s not
get too cocky about thinking what we think is real.
Others celebrate everyday interactions.
Bio
Born in western Pennsylvania in 1955, raised in
Texas, and educated on the east coast, Barbara now resides in
the Finger Lakes area of New York State. She began exploring
photography in 1996 and began exhibiting her work solo in 2003.
Barbara is a jewelry designer (www.TwoSistersStudio.com) and
enjoys painting in oils as well. Based in Corning, New York, she
and her husband travel as often as they can to as many new
places as they can.
Photographers she admires include Paul Caponigro, Keith
Carter, Michael Kenna, Sally Mann, Henri Cartier-Bresson and
Alfred Eisenstadt, among others.
Education
1977, BA, Art History, Brown University, Providence, RI
Photography Workshops
The Maine Photographic Workshops, B&W Crash, 1996;
B&W
Darkroom, John Mattoon, 1999-2002:
Woodstock Photography
Workshops, Visual Poetry, Keith Carter, 2002
Exhibits
2002, Mosaic, STOP Group Show, 171 Cedar Arts Center,
Corning, New York;
2003, As I Go, B&C Photo, Elmira, New York;
2005,
More Observations, B&C Photo, Elmira, New York;
2008, In Their Studios: Artists & Their Environment, West End
Gallery, Corning, New York
Books/Photo Essays
2008, In Their Studios: Artists & Their Environment |
