Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision

This retrospective of the photographer Uta Barth traces her use of the camera to explore both how and what we see.

Los Angeles-based contemporary artist Uta Barth (b. 1958) has spent her decades-long career exploring the complexities and limits of human and mechanical vision. At first, her photographs appear to be deceptively simple depictions of everyday objects—light filtering through a window, tree branches bereft of leaves, a sparsely appointed domestic interior—but these images, visual...