Bus People
Portfolio TitleAmerican Roads
Series TitleBaxter Travenol Lab Series
Artist
Barbara Crane
(American, 1928 - 2019)
Date1975
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 19 5/8 × 15 3/4 inches (49.85 × 40.01 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.1.5
SignedSigned on sheet verso, top, in pencil: "Barbara Crane"
InscribedTitled and dated on sheet verso, top, in pencil: ""Bus People", Baxter Travenol Lab Series / 1975 / © 1980 / Gelatin silver print"
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DescriptionOne of twenty photographs included in American Roads portfolio. Image of an "American Sightseeing Tours" bus appears along the bottom with a gridded abstract pattern repeated above. At the very top of the image are portraits of people's heads at varying sizes and heights; all set against a dark black background.Gallery LabelThis curious composition prominently features the geometric pattern of a wall, which visually separates a tour bus at the bottom from a line of figures at top. Combining description and abstraction, the photograph epitomizes Barbara Crane’s experimental work. She once noted of her creative approach: “I attempt to eradicate previous habits of seeing and thinking… I keep searching for what is visually new to me while hoping for a fusion of form and content.”
Copyright© Barbara Crane
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