Barbara Peacock
Barbara Peacock is an American photographer. She has published the books Hometown (2016) and American Bedroom (2023).
Barbara Peacock
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- Photographer
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- United States
- Education
- Boston University College of Fine Arts · School of the Museum of Fine Arts
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Barbara Peacock is an American photographer. She has published the books Hometown (2016) and American Bedroom (2023).
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Barbara Peacock was a photographer, of American nationality.
The photographer was educated at Boston University College of Fine Arts and School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Barbara Peacock lived in Portland.
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Key facts
• Occupation — Photographer • Notable Works — * Hometown • American Bedroom
Early life and education
Early life and education
Peacock grew up in Westford, Massachusetts. She studied fine arts at Boston University College of Fine Arts, and photography and filmmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, also in Boston.
Work
Work
Hometown is a 33-year project that documents the small-town people and events of Westford, Massachusetts. American Bedroom is a series of portraits of people in their bedrooms, as well as personal statements from them. The work is about the "complexities and idiosyncrasies of contemporary American life." Looking for a cross-section of people from all walks of life, Peacock photographed about 400 people in every region of the United States, between 2016 and 2023. The book is broken down into five sections by geographic region.
Personal life
Personal life
As of 2016 she lived in Portland, Maine.
Publications
• Hometown: 1982–2016. Brooklyn, NY: Bazan Photos, 2016.. • American Bedroom: Reflections on the Nature of Life. Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer, 2023..
Awards
• 2016: LensCulture Portrait Award • 2017: One of five winners of the $10,000 Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography for American Bedroom • 2018: LensCulture Emerging Talent Award • 2022: One of seven winners, of the $5,000 Women Photograph Project Grant for American Bedroom • 2022: LensCulture Finalist, Portraits • 2023: Griffin Museum of Photography Arthur Griffin Legacy Award • 2024: FEP European Photo Book Award
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- 1.Rosenberg, David. This Photographer Spent 33 Years Capturing the Subtle Changes in Her Small New England Town. Slate. April 5, 2015. 1091-2339.
- 2.Hit The Streets 157: American Bedroom with Barbara Peacock. Valérie Jardin. March 5, 2020.
- 3.American Bedroom by Barbara Peacock – photographic portraits. The Guardian. September 12, 2017. 0261-3077.
- 4.Lakritz, Talia. What bedrooms look like across the US. Business Insider.
- 5.What our bedrooms say about us. CNN.
- 6.Lusina, Anete. Portraits of Americans in the Intimacy of Their Bedrooms. PetaPixel. June 21, 2022.
- 7.LensCulture. LensCulture Portrait Awards 2016.
- 8.Estrin, James. Getty Images Grant Winners Announced for 2017. The New York Times. September 7, 2017.
- 9.Jackson, Alex. Getty Images announces its 2017 grant winners. British Journal of Photography.
- 10.Portland photographer wins $10K Getty grant. Portland Press Herald. September 24, 2017.
- 11.LensCulture. WINNERS—Emerging Talent Awards 2018.
- 12.Dickerman, Kenneth. Here are the winners of this year's Women Photograph grants. The Washington Post. July 27, 2022.
- 13.LensCulture. WINNERS—LensCulture Portrait Awards 2022.
- 14.Barbara Peacock American Bedroom. Griffin Museum of Photography.
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