Robert Barnes was born and raised through the years of high school in the Bighorn mountains of northern Wyoming.
He passed over on November 2010.
He started working as a photolithographer and started making his own fine-art photography and exhibiting in 1972.
Since he has been using computers for his job, he has been using old techniques like platinum/palladium for printmaking his own photography.
He studied Italian at university for his study of Literature and Comparative Aesthetics, and was also married to an Italian woman. He listed his home as both in Chicago and in Cagliari (Sardinia) where the home of the family of his spouse was.
His professional years have included:
-Faculty assistant for Ansel Adams’ first workshop for photographic book publishing.
-Sports photographer and photographic correspondent for the Associated Press.
-Technical Coordinator for “Fine-Art Photography” lithographers; The Stinehour Press and Black Box
Collotype in the USA.
Portfolios in the next pages:
· Portraits and Figurative
· Alchemy as Aesthetic Metaphor
· Landscapes of Ancient Volcanic Activity
· Urban Landscapes
