Barron Claiborne, from the Black Madonna Series ️Barron Claiborne is an American photographer who gr
Barron Claiborne, from the Black Madonna Series ️Barron Claiborne is an American photographer who grew up in Boston and began taking photographs at the age of ten. After moving to New York in 1989, he assisted photographers such as Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Saint Claire Born, and Richard Numeroff. Claiborne’s portraits of musicians have been published in hundreds of publications, such as his image of DJ Khaled that appeared on the September 2016 cover of Paper (magazine). His work has also appeared on dozens of record covers including; Tricky’s Angels With Dirty Faces and N'Dea Davenport ’s album “Bring It On”. His fine art images are in permanent collections around the world including the Polaroid Museum in Cambridge, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and MoCADA. His work has been shown in Paris, Martha’s Vineyard, and Art Basel. In 2012, Claiborne received a grant from The National Endowment for the Arts and the following year received a grant from Creative Time. -- source link
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