“I wasn’t breaking
rules; I was actually making up my own.”
Barbara Kasten
Barbara Kasten
For most of her career the eighty-year-old, Chicago based
photographic artist Barbara Kasten has
ignored the documentary aspects of her craft, instead the creation of non-representational stand-alone
images has been front of mind.
As she told Bomb Magazine’s
Leslie Hewitt “My introduction to photography was not an academic one. I took
one class to learn the basics; after that, it was more of a hands-on
relationship. To push the boundary of photography has never been my motivation;
I am interested in how it can be united with other disciplines... I had no
restrictions on how to approach photography. I felt free to incorporate any of
these concepts into my thinking.”
In fact, Kasten has turned the traditional concepts behind
photography on their head in the pursuit of her own vision.
As
she explained to ArtForum’s Andrianna Campbell “Light is the essence of photography, but it is not
what I am after. The important thing about light, to me, is not how it falls on
an object, but how the shadow is created. I am photographing the shadow, and
not the object that is creating the shadow. I am after another form—one that
defines reality, but it is not reality.”
It is the principle that has driven
Kasten’s work.
“In the 1980s and ’90s, when I
showed at the John Weber Gallery in New York, I wasn’t looking at photography
for inspiration. I wasn’t trying to break any of the “rules” of photography. I
was just looking for a way to combine my interests in sculpture and
photography—photography not as way of documenting sculpture but as a way to
make a new work. For me, these media function side by side, not as cause and
effect.”
And today in the digital age the octogenarian
photographer is heartened that her baton is being picked up others as they
pursue their dreams of what the medium can be.
About which she has said “My work
is being discovered by a group of people who are half my age and are looking at
photography in a much more open-minded manner. It doesn’t all have to be done
through the camera. I think the creative spirit of the day is more toward
individualism, and that fuels younger people to see how they can put their own
twist into this medium. We are looking at the essentials and not looking at
traditional prescriptions… The Internet and digital technologies are providing
fertile ground for artists today. Photography is now an even broader category,
and whether or not these practitioners are photographers is an open question.”
A major survey of Kasten’s work Stages is currently on show at Los Angeles' MOCA Pacific Design
Center until the 14th of August.
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