Richard Barnes' photographs touch
on themes relevant to science, history,
archeology, and architecture. Recent
projects explore the conditional
meaning and value created when
museums collect and display objects,
and how that meaning is deconstruct-
ed when objects are recontextualized.
He has been given access to areas of
museums that are hidden from public
view, photographing objects wrapped,
crated, or in storage. Our present day
relationship to our history and the ways
we collect and catalogue its residue are
thematic threads entwining a broad
range of work.

Flight Patterns,
New York Times 2007

Rome's Starlings,
New York Times Magazine

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