Thomas Barrow

Thomas Barrow: The Automobile

Thomas Barrow: The Automobile

During the mid-1960s, Thomas Barrow studied with Aaron Siskind at the Institute of Design in Chicago. While there he completed a visual study comprised of 115 photographs entitled, The Automobile. This series formed his thesis project and examined the role of cars in American culture. The series presented three individual yet connecting sections, which follow the automobile from display in…
Thomas Barrow: Trivia and Trivia 2, The Verifax Prints, 1973

Thomas Barrow: Trivia and Trivia 2, The Verifax Prints, 1973

Thomas Barrow’s distinguished career in photography is characterized by a remarkable range and complexity of imagery. As one who almost immediately abandoned the traditional approach to photography, Barrow has found inspiration in the work of experimental printmakers and painters and was deeply influenced by the Bauhaus approach of the Institute of Design, where he studied in the 1960s. Although his…