Barbara Blondeau
American photographer (1938–1974)
Barbara Blondeau (May 6, 1938 – December 24, 1974) was an American experimental photographer active in the mid-1960s through the early 1970s. In her career as a photographer, she worked in a wide variety of materials, process and formats, although she is best known for her strip prints which she stumbled upon while shooting with a malfunctioning camera.
Early life and education
Blondeau was born in Detroit, Michigan, on May 6, 1938. Originally, Blondeau studied to be a painter at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She later on received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1961. Aaron Siskind and Joseph Jachna gave direction to Blondeau, when she was studying at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology during a time where many of the photographers present were working in the style of formalism. Blondeau received her Master's of Fine Arts (MFA) at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1968. While working on her MFA, Blondeau also taught at the Institute of Design. During her graduate school days, Blondeau, experimented with concepts such as transparency, repetition, patterning and narrative in her work.
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