House on Fire - Autobio., 1988
Polaroid polacolar ER Land Film Print, 20" x 24"
Tom Barrow was born in 1938 in Kansas City, Missouri. He received a B.F.A. in graphic design from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1963 and an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design in 1967. He studied photography with Aaron Siskind. He has been awarded two National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowships. Barrow has had exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work has also been included in exhibitions at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, the Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, and the Houston Center for Photography. Barrow has made many photographs on the theme of houses and homes and is known for a series of urban landscapes called the "Cancellation Series" because of the X marked across each of the images. Another of his series explores the subject of American icons and is composed of large-scale Polaroid images that have been pieced together.
*Excerpted from Tools as Art: The Hechinger Collection, published by Harry N. Abrams Inc.