Barbara kruger photography

Find out why Barbara Kruger is one of the 100 most influential people of 2021.

Exhibition dates: 30th September 2016 – 22nd January 2017 Barbara Kruger (American, b. 1945) Untitled (Know nothing, Believe anything, Forget everything) 1987/2014 Screenprint o…

Forum Auctions, LOT:1 - Barbara Kruger (b.1945) Blind Idealism is deadly

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Photo 2, Fall 2011 My work is about the exploitation of women. As you can see, I was influenced heavily by Barbara Kruger's work. Similar to her, I used bold text for a saying that is controversial and offensive. I want these to be offensive. These sayings are not necessarily my views but more of how society sometimes views women. I want my viewers to understand how it feels to be a woman. I myself am offended every day when I am told how to act, look, feel, and that I am being “unladylike”…

Learn about The Broad Collection artist Barbara Kruger. Barbara Kruger was born in 1945 in Newark, New Jersey. Kruger briefly attended Syracuse University, then Parsons School of Design in New York City, where she studied with artists and photographers Marvin Israel and Diane Arbus. Kruger worked in graphic design for Condé Nast Publications at Mademoiselle magazine, and was promoted to head designer within a year, at the age of twenty-two. Kruger has described her time in graphic design as…

© Barbara Kruger. Courtesy: Mary Boone Gallery, New York

Barbara Kruger is an artist whose work, once identified, is immediately recognisable from then on. She incorporates text and old photographs from magazines, or her own photographs, to present provocative messages. These concern consumer culture, stereoptying, feminism, politics etc. In recent years she has moved into video art and installation art. One of Ms Kruger's best known slogans “I shop therefore I am” mocks consumerism. She also uses her artwork as a platform to make known her…