Background
Jeannette Montgomery Barron was born in Atlanta, Georgia and moved to New York in 1979 to study at the International Center of Photography.
(Almost more a diary than a monograph, Jeannette Montgomer...)
Almost more a diary than a monograph, Jeannette Montgomery Barron's My Years in the 1980s is a collection of photographs taken in studios, apartments and clubs, accompanied by Barron's notes, letters and mementos from New York in the 1980s, presented in the familiar format of a Moleskine notebook. Barron arrived in New York in the late 1970s, and her photographs offer a glimpse of the burgeoning East Village art scene through portraits of its protagonists, Barron's friends and peers: Jean-Michel Basquiat, Eric Fischl, Peter Halley, Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Robert Mapplethorpe, Cindy Sherman and Andy Warhol, among many others.
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Jeannette Montgomery Barron was born in Atlanta, Georgia and moved to New York in 1979 to study at the International Center of Photography.
In 1982, she began a series of artist portraits, starting with painter Francesco Clemente. In 1984, gallerist Bruno Bischofberger assigned Montgomery Barron to photograph Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat at The Factory. There, Montgomery Barron met Keith Haring, Bianca Jagger, and Boy George, who became subjects in her portraiture series.
These photographs were exhibited by Galerie Bruno Bischofberger in 1985 and published in her first monograph, Jeannette Montgomery Barron.
Montgomery Barron then collaborated with Pulitzer Prize winning poet Jorie Graham on a collection of still life photographs entitled Photographs and Poems, published by Scalo in 1998. Her following series of work, Mirrors, was published by Holzwarth Editions in 2004 and includes text by the celebrated author Edmund White.
Twenty photographs taken on Montgomery Barron"s visit to artist Keith Haring"s studio in 1985 were published in her next monograph, Session with Keith Haring. As her mother"s struggle with Alzheimer"s progressed, robbing her of any remembered past, Montgomery Barron began this visual album as a way of both sparking her mother"s memories, and coping with her own sense of loss.
My Mother"s Clothes received praise from numerous publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker.
In Spring 2013, powerHouse Books published SCENE, a book of her portraits from the 1980s. My Year"s in the 1980"s New York Art Scene, was published in 2014 in conjunction with a major exhibition of Montgomery Barron"s work at Collezione Maramotti 2015: Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Kunsthaus, Zurich McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Avon Incorporated. New York Ralph Lauren, New York Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich.
(Almost more a diary than a monograph, Jeannette Montgomer...)