| LC control no. | n 85818741 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Ess, Barbara, 1944-2021 |
| Variant(s) | Ess, B. (Barbara), 1944-2021 Ess, Barbara, 1948- Schwartz, Barbara Eileen, 1944-2021 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1944-04-04 |
| Death date | 2021-03-04 |
| Place of birth | Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Elizaville (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Photography, Pinhole |
| Affiliation | Bard College |
| Profession or occupation | Artists Musicians |
| Found in | nuc85-60489: Just another asshole [MI] 1979 (usage on NN rept.: B. Ess) Krane, S. Barbara Ess, c1992: p. 19 (b. 1948 in Brooklyn, N.Y.; artist and writer) Email from MH, Dept. of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Mar. 5, 2007 (been in contact with Ms. Ess, now a professor at Bard College, and she would prefer that the full form "Barbara Ess" be used as her name heading) Bard College Web site, Mar. 6, 2007 (Barbara Ess; associate professor of photography, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts; performed and recorded music with bands since 1978) Artforum website, viewed on March 8, 2021: news article posted March 4, 2021, "Barbara Ess (1948-2021)" (Barbara Ess; photographer, musician and writer; died today at the age of seventy-three) New York times WWW site, viewed March 16, 2021: obituary dated March 9, 2021 (Barbara Ess; artist and musician best known for plumbing the limits of perception with a pinhole camera; born Barbara Eileen Schwartz, in Brooklyn on April 4, 1944; died on Thursday [March 4] at her home in Elizaville, N.Y., aged 76) Smithsonian American Art Museum WWW site, viewed March 16, 2021: artist pages (Barbara Ess; Barbara E. Ess; born New York, Kings, New York [i.e. Brooklyn], 1948; active London, England) Davis Publications WWW site, viewed March 16, 2021: "What's old is new again" (on pinhole photography), dated June 21, 2010 (illustration of "No title (Dog's feet)," 1985, by Barbara Ess, born 1946, US) <https://www.davisart.com/blogs/curators-corner/pinhole-photography-barbara-ess/> Wikipedia, viewed March 16, 2021 (Barbara Ess (born Barbara Eileen Schwartz; April 4, 1944-March 4, 2021) was an American photographer. She often used a pinhole camera and was also known for her No Wave musical and editorial work) Email message to Bard College staff, March 9, 2021: tribute from Magenta Plains gallery, New York City (Barbara Ess, April 4, 1948-March 4, 2021) Email correspondence from Daniella Dooling, artist-in-residence, Bard College, March 16, 2021 ("Her real birthdate was 4/4/1944 - however she used 1948 in her bio ... I tend to think she would prefer 1948 - we hosted a 70th birthday party for her in 2008 with her closest friends and she never told us she was actually 74:) On the other hand, I think 4/4/1944 is a pretty awesome birthdate!") |
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