Dean Brown has been making Barbie pictures since 1981 when a daughter gave him a Barbie for his birthday and suggested that the doll might make a good model. Fifteen years and some 300 pictures later, his work has been exhibited at the Tartt Gallery in Washington, D. C., in group shows at The Kitchen in New York City, at Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, and at galleries in California and Washington State.

Three pictures from his art history portfolio, "A Capricious Chronicle of Western Art," are included in "FOREVER BARBIE The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll" by M. G. Lord and published by William Morrow, New York, in 1994.

Brown's conventional photography--he calls it "straight"--has appeared in numerous magazines, text books and television commercials since 1970. Extensive travels have taken him to many of the world's major art museums and provided inspiration for many of the Barbie art history pictures.

Father of four children and grandfather of six, Dean Brown lives with his wife of nearly fifty years, the former Mary Ella Lamb, in Bethesda, Maryland.


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