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Barbara Ess
Barbara Ess is credited on 44 releases across 16 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1979–2010 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
44
Pressings credited
16
Albums
5
Decades active
2
In collections
Biography
Barbara Ess (born Barbara Eileen Schwartz; April 4, 1944 – March 4, 2021) was an American pinhole camera photographer, No Wave musician and Just Another Asshole editor. She taught photography at Bard College since 1997; who in 2024, along with the Schwartz family, has established an annual award to assist Bard College photography students in need called The Barbara Ess Fund for Artistic Expression in Photography.
Bio from Wikipedia
Credited work
44 releases · 16 albums · active 1979–2010
- Performance · 50
- Other credits · 14
- Production · 4
Studios: Sorcerer Sound · Radio City Music Hall Studio · St. Mark's Church, New York City · Brooklyn Academy Of Music
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Branca
- Various
- Y Pants
- Glenn Branca
- The Static
- Dan Graham
- Onward (2)
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