Lane Barden is an artist, educator and architectural photographer based in Los Angeles, CA with an M.F.A. in Photography from the University of New Mexico. While his original influence was the classic black and white landscape photography of Edward Weston, Paul Strand and Paul Caponigro, his exposure to conceptual art in graduate school shifted his orientation to more contemporary work. In Los Angeles, his strongest influences were Ed Ruscha, Wallace Berman, and Judy Fiskin. He was a darkroom and digital assistant to Judy Fiskin from 2004 to 2006

While teaching at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in Los Angeles and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena he received grant funding for Linear City, his project to photograph linear trajectories in the Los Angeles Landscape from a helicopter. That project consists of 131 photographs and was purchased in 2013 by the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center. 75 of those images were published in the urban studies anthology Infrastructural City by ACTAR Publications in Barcelona, Spain. 

His serial piece 23 Catcher’s Masks, was purchased by the Leonard and Marjorie Vernon collection, later bequeathed to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where it remains today. He also has work in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and the New Mexico State University of Fine Arts. Three pieces from the series Riverwork were acquired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2020. 

He has an international client list as an architecture photographer; this work may be seen at www.lanebarden.com.