Photographs, circa 1980s

Seventeen of the photographs in this series depict artwork used in the publication of Barnes's Creatures in an Alphabet. The artwork is overlaid with notes and sketches produced by Francesca Belanger, who designed the jacket and artwork for this book. The three additional photographs in this series are photographs of Barnes. The first is a publicity photograph taken by Berenice Abbott in the 1920s, which was used for the back of the book jacket for Creatures in an Alphabet. The remaining two photographs show Barnes in her later years. One image, taken by Christoph Dershcan, is dated June 11, 1982; the other is a color photograph, probably taken in the 1980s.

The photographs of the artwork precede the photographs of Barnes, which are arranged chronologically.