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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Barss, Peter, 1941
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Description area
Dates of existence
1941-
History
Peter Barss was born on 4 July 1941 and is a descendant of the Barss family of Lunenburg County. He emigrated from Massachusetts in 1973 and has a BA and MA in English Literature from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. He studied photography in 1971-1972 under Lee Broman at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Barss is an accomplished photographer, having operated the Barss Photographic Studio in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia for many years. He is the author of Images of Lunenburg County.