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rebecca lynn barnard: a photographic tapestry
November 3 to November 26, 2018
Rebecca Lynn Barnard, Pears on red, Photograph
Rebecca Lynn Barnard, Barley, photograph
Rebecca Lynn Barnard, Painted palms with lounger, photograph
Rebecca Lynn Barnard, Pears in birdcage, photograph
Rebecca Lynn Barnard, No trespassing, photograph
Rebecca Lynn Barnard, Iris, photograph
Rebecca Lynn Barnard, Shady shadows, photograph
Rebecca Lynn Barnard was born in 1953. She grew up in St Louis, Missouri, where she died in 2015. She studied at Washington University, where she received a BA in music and an MA in English Literature. She began photographing in earnest in her thirties. Barnard studied at St Louis Community College at Forest Park, where her teachers included the late John Hilgert and Tom Barkman. She came to appreciate the community that developed among the people from a wide variety of backgrounds who taught or enrolled in photography courses there.
She learned much by looking. She admired the work of such photographers as Eugene Atget, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, and Ralph Gibson. But more important was looking – looking at people and things in the world. She would buy things at antique malls and thrift stores and then arrange them in her home. She said, “I'm training my eye."