An ’80s Slice of City Life

by JEANNETTE MONTGOMERY BARRON

Jeannette left Atlanta in 1979 to study photography in New York. Her first job was shooting film stills for The Loveless, a biker movie starring Willem Dafoe, which her brother Monty and Kathryn Bigelow shot in Georgia in 1982. Before long, she was fine-tuning black-and-white portraits of artists. Her portraits captured what Ezra Pound called “an image and a vortex in a moment in time.”