remembering, Barbara Ess (born Barbara Eileen Schwartz; April 4, 1944 - March 4, 2021) an American photographer and musician. Ess performed and recorded post-punk music with bands starting in 1978, including The Static, Disband, Y Pants and Ultra Vulva. She often performed at art galleries, at the Mudd Club and at Tier 3. Ess remained musically active throughout the 1980s, contributing tracks to Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine and collaborating with Peggy Ahwesh on 2001's Radio Guitar for the Ecstatic Peace! label. She often used a pinhole camera and was known for her No Wave musical and editorial work. Of her intent as a photographer, Ess said "In a way I try to photograph what cannot be photographed." Just Another Asshole was a no wave mixed media publication project launched from the Lower East Side of Manhattan from 1978 to 1987. Barbara Ess organized and edited seven issues of Just Another Asshole, which formed thanks to an open, collaborative submission process. Issues 3 and 4 were co-edited by Jane Sherry and issues 5 through 7 were co-edited by Glenn Branca. Issue formats include: zine, LP record, large format tabloid, magazine, exhibition catalog, and paperback book. Ess' work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others
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remembering, Barbara Ess (born Barbara Eileen Schwartz; April 4, 1944 - March 4, 2021) an American photographer and musician.
Ess performed and recorded post-punk music with bands starting in 1978, including The Static, Disband, Y Pants and Ultra Vulva.
She often performed at art galleries, at the Mudd Club and at Tier 3.
Ess remained musically active throughout the 1980s, contributing tracks to Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine and collaborating with Peggy Ahwesh on 2001's Radio Guitar for the Ecstatic Peace! label.
She often used a pinhole camera and was known for her No Wave musical and editorial work. Of her intent as a photographer, Ess said "In a way I try to photograph what cannot be photographed."
Just Another Asshole was a no wave mixed media publication project launched from the Lower East Side of Manhattan from 1978 to 1987.
Barbara Ess organized and edited seven issues of Just Another Asshole, which formed thanks to an open, collaborative submission process.
Issues 3 and 4 were co-edited by Jane Sherry and issues 5 through 7 were co-edited by Glenn Branca.
Issue formats include: zine, LP record, large format tabloid, magazine, exhibition catalog, and paperback book.
Ess' work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others
R.I.P. Barbara Ess.
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