Tom Baril

1952 - present

American (North American) (United States, Putnam(Windham, Connecticut))

Baril, born in Connecticut, graduated from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in photography in 1980. Currently, he lives and works in New York City. He is known for his Polaroid and “wet-collodion prints of flowers, landscapes”(ARTNET, 2018), diners, and other buildings. His images picture the mundane but from a different point-of-view. Tom Baril’s work is found in the collections of several important museums including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Fogg Museum at Harvard University. Baril not only considers the composition of his pieces when behind the camera lens but also actively reassesses the prints when developing his film. He employs several special darkroom techniques, such “applying selenium to prints and placing them in black tea to create a gold patina (ARTNET, 2018).”

ARTNET, Tom Baril. (2018). Retrieved from http://www.artnet.com/artists/tom-baril/