Background
Barbara G. Thompson was born in 1942 in Connecticut, United States.
Barbara G. Thompson was born in 1942 in Connecticut, United States.
Barbara Thompson received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography in 1974 from the San Francisco Art Institute, California, and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography in 1976 from Lone Mountain College, San Francisco. She also studied at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, from 1960 to 1964.
Barbara Thompson has taught photography at Dominican College, San Rafael (now Dominican University of California), California, since 1977 and at Academy of Art College (now the Academy of Art University (AAU)), San Francisco, since 1979. From 1976 to 1977 Barbara Thompson was a photography instructor at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Her earlier work included cyanotypes, cloth pieces, and cyanotype books.