题 目：Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision / 乌塔·巴特：边缘视野

作 者：Arpad Kovacs

出 版：J. Paul Getty Museum ，2024

装 帧：精装，242页

尺 寸：25.4*27.9  cm

这本回顾摄影师乌塔·巴特（Uta Barth）的著作追溯了她如何利用相机探索我们观看的方式与内容。

乌塔·巴特是一位出生于1958年的洛杉矶当代艺术家，她数十年的职业生涯一直致力于探索人类与机械视觉的复杂性和局限性。乍一看，她的照片似乎只是简单地描绘了日常物品——透过窗户的光线、光秃秃的树枝、布置简单的室内空间——但这些视觉简约却概念严谨的图像，实则源自她对视觉、感知、光线和时间的深入探究。

在这本图文并茂的专著中，策展人阿尔帕德·科瓦奇（Arpad Kovacs）以及撰稿人露西·加伦（Lucy Gallun）和杰里米·吉尔伯特-罗尔夫（Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe）共同梳理了巴特的职业生涯轨迹，并讨论了她最重要的系列作品，揭示了她是如何摒弃传统摄影主题的主导地位，转而将注意力引向边缘之物的。书中还收录了巴特职业生涯早期未曾发表的作品集，这些作品极大地丰富了我们对这位重要艺术家的理解。此外，书中还收录了巴特最新的作品《...from dawn to dusk》，这是她为纪念盖蒂中心二十五周年而创作的一项雄心勃勃的委托作品。

This retrospective of the photographer Uta Barth traces her use of the camera to explore both how and what we see.

Los Angeles–based contemporary artist Uta Barth (b. 1958) has spent her decades-long career exploring the complexities and limits of human and mechanical vision. At first, her photographs appear to be deceptively simple depictions of everyday objects—light filtering through a window, tree branches bereft of leaves, a sparsely appointed domestic interior—but these images, visually spare yet conceptually rigorous, emerge from her investigation of sight, perception, light, and time.

In this richly illustrated monograph, curator Arpad Kovacs and contributors Lucy Gallun and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe chart Barth’s career path and discuss her most significant series, revealing how she has rejected the primacy of a traditional photographic subject and instead called attention to what is on the periphery. The book includes previously unpublished bodies of work made early in her career that add much to our understanding of this important artist. Also included is Barth’s most recent work, ...from dawn to dusk, an ambitious commission marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Getty Center.