Barry W. Andersen is Professor Emeritus at Northern Kentucky University.
Background
Barry W. Andersen was born in 1945 in New York, United States.
Education
Andersen earned a BA from California State University at Northridge in 1973 and an MFA from the University of Florida in Gainesville in 1975.
Career
He taught at University of Florida as a graduate assistant while earning his MFA. He began his teaching career at Northern Kentucky University in 1975, retiring in 2012.
Quotations:
I have been making pictures of the land and sky for over thirty years. My landscape interest lies primarily at the interface of human activity on the land. This can occasionally take the form of a picture whose beauty is relatively easy to access, but often takes shape in pictures that stretch my sense of what beauty is in a pictorial and personal sense.
In my most recent work, digital photography has allowed me the freedom to play with the picture in ways that painters generally take for granted. I can readily remove objects from a scene and slightly alter the land before me to enhance the structure of the picture and clarify the visual experience I am seeking. Some of the pictures in this series are an absolutely straightforward photographic recording of the scene in front of me. Some have small digital enhancements similar to traditional dodging and burning. Some of the pictures have a sky replaced, a common 19th century darkroom practice. Still others depict scenes that do not exist as shown.
Membership
Society of Petroleum Engineers
1974
Personality
He is grateful to have studied with Robert von Sternberg, Jerry McMillan, Doug Prince, Todd Walker, and Jerry Uelsmann.