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Robert Baron’s digital photography is widely exhibited in Westchester, New York, where he currently resides. His works have also been exhibited in Manhattan and Binghamton NY. One work is currently on tour in New England. He is an active member of the Westchester Photographic Society and the Mamaroneck Artists' Guild. Robert’s imagery includes landscapes, architecture, metropolitan scenes and abstractions inspired by or developed from his photographic observations. Trained as an art historian, his style and content frequently reveal restrained influences from the visual arts of the past. Stylistically, he tends to use his source images as the first step of a photographic journey that ultimately reveals or exposes their hidden life. Frequently his photographs will contain strong graphic and rhythmic currents that acknowledge and echo the four-square shape of the frame. Robert’s academic background is deeply imbedded in the fine arts and in the use of photography as an aid to the documentation of arts. After his art historical studies at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, he obtained a position teaching the History of Art at the California State University, Fullerton. Afterwards, he worked on a variety of projects that sought to computerize fine art museum cataloging and management procedures. In that capacity he worked for the Getty Trust, the Art Museum at Princeton, the Walters Art Gallery, and similar institutions. Subsequently, he served as project manager for a Mellon Foundation experiment to create an online collection of economically priced or free images in response to the surging demand for payment of copyright royalties for the educational use of images. Concurrently, he served as chair of the College Art Association’s committee on intellectual property. His advocacy for copyright policies friendly to scholarly research is ongoing. He was recently asked by the State Department to discuss infringement issues with a delegation from Beijing. Robert sits on the editorial board of the journal Visual Resources. An article about how metaphors are used as weapons in copyright debates is forthcoming in the journal Art and Museum Law published by the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Publications and work product derived from these projects are online at www.studiolo.org/index.htm. Robert also developed a popular educational website devoted to presenting and analyzing the variety of modern images that derive from and parody the Mona Lisa. It was in support of these professional endeavors that Robert nurtured and refined his photographic skills, first as a tool for producing his personal teaching and research materials, but later in service to art historians and other scholars who require well-documented access to analog and digital imagery. It is from these beginnings that the style and content of his current work evolved.
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