TCF Ep. 460 - Barbara Peacock

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Cameras, Art, Photoshop, Visual Arts, Career, Interviews, Photographers, Arts, Photography, Photo, Digital

4.8 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Barbara Peacock studied fine arts at Boston University College of Fine Arts, and photography and filmmaking at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. She started as a street photographer and gradually became a lifestyle photographer. She has had the privilege to study with Mary Ellen Mark, Eugene Richards, and Ernesto Bazan. Her project, Hometown, has just been printed in an 80-page book, with an introduction by Ernesto Bazan. It is a 30-year photographic project of everyday life in the town she grew up in and spent most of her life, spanning from 1982 to 2015. Barbara is currently working on her project, American Bedroom. It is a cultural and anthropological study of Americans in their private dwelling: their bedroom. The nature of the project comprises portraits of individuals, couples, and families that reveal the depth of their character and spirit. Resources: Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download for . Click here to download Support the work we do at The Candid Frame with contributing to our Patreon effort. You can do this by visiting or visiting the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

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0:00.0	This is IbarianX and this is The Candid Frame.
0:12.4	I want you to take a moment and to think about all the different bedrooms that you've had in your lifetime.
0:20.5	Go back to when you were a kid or a teenager
0:22.6	or when you were single or living with someone and remember what that room looked like.
0:30.3	Did you have hardwood floors or was it carpet? Were the walls painted a particular color
0:36.6	or did you have wood paneling?
0:38.3	What were the items sitting on your nightstand?
0:41.3	Was it immaculate and tidy or more like an environmental hazard?
0:48.3	This space, the bedroom, in all its different manifestations in our lives, is the most intimate, personal space
0:57.3	will ever occupy. And what we do in this space, how we decorate it, and who we share it with,
1:04.1	says so much about who we are and even aspire to be. This is the world that photographer Barbara
1:10.7	Peacock has been exploring
1:12.6	with her photo project American Bedroom.
1:15.6	In it, she has been photographing people from all over the country
1:19.6	and the resulting painterly images provide an honest glimpse into who we are today,
1:26.6	which is the result of people opening up both their
1:29.8	homes and lives to Barbara.
1:33.3	I think there's a lot of very lonely people in the world, and that's something that I've been
1:40.0	discovering as I travel.
1:42.1	There's a lot of lonely people in the world.
1:43.9	And just to talk to a new person, to tell your story to a new person, in discovering as I travel. There's a lot of lonely people in the world.
1:49.3	And just to talk to a new person, to tell your story to a new person, even if it means bringing them into the bedroom, they agree to it, I'm shocked at how open people are.
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