Deborah Frances Frances

Background

Deborah Frances Baker was born in 1954 in Honiton, Devon, England, United Kingdom.

Education

Baker received a diploma in 1977 from Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham, England. She also attended the Maryland Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1976.

Career

As of this date Baker is a lecturer at the City of London Polytechnic. In 1980 she was a fellow in photography at Sheffield City Polytechnic. In 1979 she was the director of the Photographic Gallery in Cardiff, Wales, and worked as a lecturer at West Nottingham College in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in 1978. She also worked as an assistant to both Paul Hill of The Photographer's Place in Bradboume, Derbyshire (1978), and to Ralph Gibson in New York (1977-78).

The photographer defines her work as being “concerned with photography in its purest sense, translating the three-dimensional reality to a two-dimensional image."

Achievements

• PUBLICATIONS Periodicals: Open Eye Gallery Magazine, June 1979; Art and Artists, Feb 1979; “Photographers," Impressions Gallery Magazine, Feb 1979; News Reporter, Dec 1978; U.S. Camera Annual, Dec 1977; Nye Foto, spring 1976.
  
  COLLECTIONS Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Victoria & Albert Mus., London; Yorkshire Arts, England.
  
  

Connections

Friend:

Thomas Cooper

Deborah Frances Baker studied in Trent Polytechnic with Thomas Cooper, Paul Hill, Raymond Moore and John Blakemore.

Friend:

Paul Hill

Deborah Frances Baker studied in Trent Polytechnic with Thomas Cooper, Paul Hill, Raymond Moore and John Blakemore.

Friend:

Raymond Moore

Deborah Frances Baker studied in Trent Polytechnic with Thomas Cooper, Paul Hill, Raymond Moore and John Blakemore.

Friend:

John Blakemore

Deborah Frances Baker studied in Trent Polytechnic with Thomas Cooper, Paul Hill, Raymond Moore and John Blakemore.