Uta Barth

Uta Barth (1958, Germany) is a contemporary photographer best known for her interplay between the photographs and the environment in which they are shown. Throughout the past two decades, Uta Barth has made visual perception the subject of her work. Regarded her “empty” images that border on painterly abstraction, the artist carefully renders blurred backgrounds, cropped frames and the natural qualities of light to capture incidental and fleeting moments: those which exist almost exclusively within our periphery. With a deliberate disregard for both the conventional photographic subject and point-and-shoot role of the camera, Barth’s work delicately deconstructs conventions of visual representation by calling our attention to the limits of the human eye.