Barry Kornbluh

About Barry Kornbluh
Barry Kornbluh (1952), began photographing in the 1970s while pursuing a degree in art history. He moved to New York in 1977 and studied photography with Lisette Model who guided him to a personal and intuitive style. In the 1980s he worked in the archive of Magnum Photos and later worked as a freelancer as an assistant to Elliott Erwitt, Susan Meiselas and Paul Fusco. He soon took on his own assignments, including photographing the New York jazz scene and creating portraits of literary and art world notables. His personal work, however, remained in the foreground. In the 1990s, Kornbluh moved to Amsterdam, where his poetic images of family and friends, captured in grainy black and white, took on new meaning.