Tag: Richard Barnes

  • photo-eye Bookstore | Richard Barnes: Animal Logic

    Link: Animal Logic, Barnes’s first monograph, collects four related species of his photographic work that touch on themes relevant to science, history, archaeology, and architecture. Through his lens, sights and objects normally hidden from public view—half-installed dioramas, partially wrapped specimens, anatomical models, exploded skulls, and taxidermied animals in shipping crates—take on a strange beauty

  • Poetry in Motion: Migrating Starlings of Rome Photographed by Richard Barnes

    Poetry in Motion: Migrating Starlings of Rome Photographed by Richard Barnes

    Poetry in Motion: Migrating Starlings of Rome Photographed by Richard Barnes – Feature Shoot A murmuration of starlings is difficult to understand without seeing it for oneself. Murmur, a series of photographs of this majestic occurrence by NYC-based photographer Richard Barnes, makes it a bit more comprehensible. Barnes was in Rome in 2005 as a…

  • Flight Patterns

    Flight Patterns

    Amazing photos by Richard Barnes of starling flocks over Italy in today’s New York Times Magazine: Richard Barnes’s photographs capture the double nature of the birds — or at least the double nature of our relationship to them — recording the pointillist delicacy of the flock and something darker, almost sinister in the gathering mass.…