NYAB Event - Tim Barber “Blues”

Tim Barber “Blues”

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agnès b. presents Blues, an exhibition by Tim Barber. The solo exhibition from the New York-based photographer will feature 39 traditional cyanotypes, made from a printing process that produces a cyan-blue print.

Tim Barber (b. Feb. 5, 1979) grew up in Amherst Massachusetts, lived for a few years in the mountains
of Northern Vermont, studied photography in Vancouver B.C. and now lives in New York City. A
photographer, curator and designer, Barber worked as the photo editor for Vice magazine (2003-2005)
and founded the online gallery and image archive tinyvices.com (2005), which was released as a free
App (2010) and eventually evolved into Time & Space (www.time-and-space.tv) (2013), a curated
community platform for artists. Barber co-curated the inaugural New York Photo Festival (2008) along
with Martin Parr (Magnum), Kathy Ryan (New York Times Magazine), and Leslie Martin (The Aperture
Foundation). He also curated and edited a series of five monographs published by the Aperture
Foundation (2008) and launched the independent publishing house TV Books (2008-2010). Barber is
represented by Yuka Tsuruno Gallery (www.yukatsuruno.com) in Tokyo, Company Gallery in New York
(www.companygallery.us) and commercially by Supervision (www.supervisionnewyork.com).

“One of my earliest art-related memories is from elementary school, going to a cemetery and making
charcoal rubbings of grave stones on flimsy newsprint. I remember thinking about it later on making
contact prints in the darkroom in high-school, realizing it was a related process, making the linear
connection between photography and archaic printmaking. I’ve always liked thinking about photos that
way, that they are like very detailed rubbings of three dimensional reality, translations of impressions. It
was this train of thought that brought me back to working with traditional cyanotypes for this new body
of work. I was interested in what would happen in the intersection between the digital source images,
taken with an iPhone camera, and this archaic blue-print process. I see these prints as re-translated
impressions, charcoal rubbings of their originals.” - Tim Barber