Fine art photographer
Barbara Cole publishes
Between Worlds, a comprehensive book chronicling decades of her photographic practice, published by teNeues publishing house on June 28, 2023 (US).
Between Worlds is an unprecedented dive into decades of Barbara Cole's shapeshifting styles and artistic modes of expression that ultimately reveals a vision of the world as romantic as it is timeless.
Gathered together like this for the first time, these images trace Cole's pioneering spirit from her early use of Polaroid before it disappeared and her quest to develop her own painterly approach to photography; to her contemporary twist on turn-of-the-century wet collodion tintypes; to her ethereal underwater photography for which she is most known.
Alongside her fine art photography, Between Worlds captures personal reflections and her experimental processes throughout the decades, forming an intimate portrait of an artist constantly innovating and pushing the boundaries of her ongoing practice and the nature of photography itself.
Ella and Romi, Silent Conversations 1995 © Barbara Cole
Team Spirit, Toronto Series 1996 © Barbara Cole
Barbara Cole is a fine art photographer working in several photographic mediums, including underwater photography and modernized wet collodion. She was born in Toronto, Canada, in 1953. Her work is noted for its ethereal imagery depicting figures in various states of weightlessness, transformation, and self-actualization. As an innovator in her field, Cole's use of traditional and inventive techniques are part of her ongoing search for timelessness. She has held numerous exhibitions across North America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Her work has also been extensively commissioned internationally for corporate collections. She has exhibited in the Canadian Embassy in both Tokyo and Washington D.C. The acclaimed documentary series Snapshot: The Art of Photography II, features an episode devoted exclusively to Cole's photographic practice. She is currently working on an upcoming book from teNeues.
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About teNeues Verlag
teNeues Verlag, which emerged from the family-run print shop founded in Krefeld in 1931 by Dr. Heinz teNeues, has been part of the Augsburg-based Weltbild D2C-Group since the fall of 2020. Its sole shareholder is the family-owned Droege Group, an internationally active consulting and investment company based in Düsseldorf. The teNeues publishing house, also based in Düsseldorf since 2021 and with further locations in Munich, Berlin, New York and London, is a specialist for high-quality as well as exclusive photography, travel, nature, architecture, design, lifestyle, culture and art books. teNeues works with renowned international photographers, including icons of image creation such as Elliott Erwitt, Edward Quinn and Paul Almasy, as well as contemporary masters of photography who shape the image of our present, such as Greg Gorman, Bruce Weber, Jimmy Nelson, Vincent Peters, Marsel van Oosten and Thomas Hoepker. In addition, the publishing house creates and publishes titles with and about major companies and brands, such as BMW, Ferrari, Porsche, Cartier, Chopard, Swarovski. The multilingual illustrated books of teNeues Verlag are available worldwide.
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Emergence, Surfacing, 2019 © Barbara Cole
Wet Plate 007, Duplicity 2012 © Barbara Cole
