{"id":31191,"date":"2026-07-14T09:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/?post_type=artist&#038;p=31191"},"modified":"2026-07-14T10:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T08:04:17","slug":"barbara-crane","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/artist\/barbara-crane\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Crane"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text' data-pattern='ho\/header-kunstler'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only padding-bottom-6'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-offset-1 col-md-7'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-3'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \"><div class=\"margin-bottom-3\">\n\t<swup-back>Back<\/swup-back>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-offset-1 col-md-7'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h2' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Barbara Crane<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center col-md-offset-1 col-md-3'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<div class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-wrapper\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\" data-lane-item-count=\"3\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-fluid header-biography-list  cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1\">\n\t\t\t<ul class=\"wp-block wp-block-ho-grid row\">\n\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>Photographer and professor<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>born on 19 March 1928 in Chicago<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-ho-lane-item col col-xs-12\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>died on 7 August 2019 in Chicago<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-3 col-md-offset-5 ho-pattern-optional-image'>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\"><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_enN14K\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 8,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-207x300.jpg\",\"width\":207,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":10428},\"large\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-707x1024.jpg\",\"width\":707,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":82544},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-768x1112.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":1112,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":96061},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-1061x1536.jpg\",\"width\":1061,\"height\":1536,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":175795},\"2048x2048\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-1414x2048.jpg\",\"width\":1414,\"height\":2048,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":296901},\"small\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-304x440.jpg\",\"width\":304,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":19098},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-400x580.jpg\",\"width\":400,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":30247},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-497x720.jpg\",\"width\":497,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":44151},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-884x1280.jpg\",\"width\":884,\"height\":1280,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":125036},\"full\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom-1326x1920.jpg\",\"width\":1326,\"height\":1920,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":264510},\"original\":{\"file\":\"Cherry-Blossom.jpg\",\"width\":1419,\"height\":2055}},\n\"alt\" : \"\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/11\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : {\"x\":0.5,\"y\":0.5},\n\"background\" : true,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:120%; 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After studying art history at Mills College in Oakland, California, and New York University, she discovered photography for herself in the 1960s. In 1964 she showed her portfolio to the photographer Aaron Siskind and became his student at the Institute of Design (formerly known as the New Bauhaus) in Chicago. She began teaching while she was still a student. Crane completed her education with a master\u2019s degree in 1966: her photographic thesis project \u201cHuman Forms\u201d examined the human body in an abstract visual idiom. Crane began teaching photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1967. After around ten years of teaching, she became a professor there. Parallel to this, she created series devoted to life in the city as well as facets of nature and landscape photography. As an official photographer of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks, she documented the architecture of her hometown until the end of the 1970s. Numerous grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, enabled her to pursue fine-art experiments with Polaroid material, among other things. Barbara Crane continued to work and teach into the 1990s. She died in Chicago on 7 August 2019.<br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Crane was born in Chicago on 19 March 1928. 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