Background
Barbara E. Karant was born in 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Barbara E. Karant was born in 1952 in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
Karant earned a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, in 1974 and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1977.
Karant has lectured in the Department of Fine Arts, Loyola University, Chicago, since 1978 and has been a freelance architectural photographer since 1977. In 1976 she was assistant to the curator of photography at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The photographer works exclusively in color, using an 8 x 10 Deardorf view camera.
Karant became a member of SPE in 1977.