Uta Barth is among the key recent artists who have brought photography to the prominent position once occupied by painting. Her photographs of interiors, urban and natural environments capture fleeting moments as if seen out of the corner of the eye, where we become aware of the beauty of everyday light, space, texture and luminous surfaces. Working in broad series, each body of work explores different details of our surroundings, such as the corner of a room, the headlights of a passing car, bare trees se
