A Year of Uncertainty, Exhaustion and Blind Faith
Karl Baden
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(...) “So, I... is... are you really worried that you could get cancer from me?” “Uh huh...” “Is that true?” “Uh huh...” “Did somebody say that you could, or did you just figure that out for yourself?” “I’m just scared. I’m scared that you’re gonna die.” “Really?” (...) I’d be lying if I claimed not to feel a sense of loss. I mean, some mornings I just lie in bed, dreaming about the past. Then I remember that it’s good enough to still inhabit the planet. I have, however, allowed myself a perverse sort of pride at having survived my own version of a tour of duty in a war zone. (...) KARL BADEN is a photographer living in Cambridge, Mass. His work has been widely exhibited, including at New York’s Robert Mann Gallery, Zabriskie Gallery, Marcuse Pfeifer Gallery, and the Museum of Modern Art, Boston’s Howard Yezerski Gallery, The Institute of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Photokina in Cologne, Germany, and The Photographers Gallery in London. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Massachusetts Artists Foundation, the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His photographs and visual books are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Polaroid International Collection and the Guggenheim Museum Library. In 2000, Baden was the subject of a 26-year retrospective exhibition at Light Work Visual Studies. His ongoing projects include photographing his face everyday since Feb. 23, 1987. He is the founder and manager of Covering Photography (coveringphotography.com), a Website that explores the relationship between book cover art and the history of photography. Baden is listed in “Who’s Who in American Art,” and is represented by the Robert Mann Gallery in New York and the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston. He has been on the Studio Arts faculty at Boston College since 1989. |
