Barbara Sonneborn
Barbara Sonneborn (* 1944 in Chicago , United States ) is an American photographer. Your documentary We Sorry to Announce was nominated for an Oscar in 1999.
Life
Barbara Sonneborn was married to her husband Jeff, who died in the Vietnam War in 1968 . Sonneborn started her own business as a visual artist and worked primarily as a photographer. Her photos have been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , among others . In addition, she designed installations and stage sets. Together with the author Joanne Ryder , she also published a book with portrait photos depicting animals and humans side by side.
In 1988 she began to work up her family history and devoted herself to a project in Vietnam . With a film production team, she began looking for Vietnam War widows to document their history. She met over 200 widows. In 1992 she traveled to Vietnam as a translator with Nguyen Ngoc Xua , a woman from South Vietnam with a similar fate, who had meanwhile married a US soldier, and interviewed several Vietnamese women there. She documented the results in the 60-minute documentary We are sorry to have to tell you . In addition to the Oscar nominations, this was honored with several prizes: In 1999, Sonneborn received the Director's Award of the Sundance Film Festival and the Truer than Fiction Award.
literature
- Without words . Together with Joanne Ryder. Gibbs Smith 1995. ISBN 0871565803
Filmography
- 1998: We regret to inform you
Web links
- Barbara Sonneborn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sonneborn in artlic.com
- ↑ Sonneborn in artechock.com
- ↑ a b Regret to Info by Barbara Sonneborn. True Lives, accessed January 17, 2013 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sonneborn, Barbara |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , United States |