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Edward Willis Barnett Edit Profile

also known as Ed Barnett

Photographer writer

Edward Willis Barnett was an American photographer, won numerous awards, focused mainly on the cathedrals and chateaux of France and England.Also he was an American naval officer and fencer.

Background

Edward Barnett was born on May 8, 1899 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.

Education

Edward Barnett attended the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. He served in France during World War I. He remained in Europe after the war.As an accomplished fencer with the épée , he competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam for the United States, but won only one match.

Career

Edward Barnett became acquainted with art photographer Man Ray while living in Paris' Montparnasse district. Through him, Barnett joined an artistic circle that included Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein, Guy Pene du Bois and Marcel Duchamp. Barnett's skills as an art photographer were recognized by the Photographic Society of America and the Federation Internationale d'Art Photographique. His prints have been acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, as well as by the Birmingham Museum of Art in his home state and the Kodak Camera Club's permanent picture collection.

Achievements

  • Edward Barnett founded the Alabama Museum of Photography and the Alabama International Exhibition of Photography.

Membership

  • Honorary Excellence

    International Federation of Photographic Art

    1971

  • Photographic Society of America

  • Austrian Company of Photographers

  • French Federation of Photographic Societies

Interests

  • Sport & Clubs

    Fencing

Connections

Friend:
Adolf Fassbender

Friend:
Otto Litzel