Barbara Probst

Barbara Probst

The queen of multiple points of view.  2 cameras, 12 cameras, simultaneously with a remote.  The way she displays keeps you eyes ping ponging around picking up previously missed details (Sholis 2006).

Fig. 1: Probst 2015.

In many of her displays the images are shown side by side, in juxtaposition and in equal and symmetrical spaces, giving each perspective equal weight and value in the final display.

Many photographs have details, but Probst's photographs ARE the details!

Details might move us in a photograph that we may miss as an eyewitness. Perspective photography turns "what-has-been" into "what-could-have-been"  (Probst 2014).

What interests me in exploring perspective photography is the transfer it can have in the classroom, and the curriculum it can cross.  Geometry, science, literature.  Multiple sides of the same story.  Problem Solving.  Critical Thinking.  

Fig. 2 & 3: Taken by Samantha and Katie at my summer workshop 2019.

Figure 1: Barbara PROBST. 2015. Exposure #114: N.Y.C., 368 Broadway, 02.05.15, 12:13 p.m. [online]. Available at: http://barbaraprobst.net/works/ [acessed July 2019]

Figure 2 & 3: Samantha and Katie 2019. Exploring multiple perspectives. Taken as part of my summer photography workshop.  

PROBST, B. 2014. What Could Have Been. [online] Available at: https://barbaraprobst.net/press/what-could-have-been/ [accessed July 2019].  

SHOLIS, B. 2006. Barbara Probst. Artforum International, 44, pp. 292