
Catalogue
- Year
- 1985
- Medium
- Silver dye bleach print
- Dimensions
- 12 13/16 × 19" (32.5 × 48.3 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Barbara Norfleet
Artist

Photography
Barbara Norfleet is an American photographer and researcher who has documented American vernacular culture and social structures through large-scale photographic projects. Born in 1926, she developed a practice centered on systematic observation of everyday life, family rituals, and domestic spaces. Her work combines rigorous archival methodology with a visual anthropologist's attention to detail, resulting in bodies of work that function as both aesthetic objects and cultural documents. Norfleet's approach emerged from postwar American photography's engagement with social documentation and personal narrative.
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Barbara Norfleet
- Year
- 1985
- Medium
- Silver dye bleach print
- Dimensions
- 12 13/16 × 19" (32.5 × 48.3 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1985-M048323
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified


