Description: Exhibition label (2021): Tina Barney was born into a wealthy New York family, an often-stated biographical fact important in understanding her artistry. Photographing family and friends, she produces large-scale prints rich in color, her subjects arranged in narrative tableaux that seemingly offer glimpses into their privileged lives but present them as mundane and unextraordinary. In 1990 Barney began working with a Toyo 8 x 10 in. camera that allowed her to focus on her subjects in a formal, portrait-like manner with a greater depth-of-field. Dramatic lighting emphasized these psychological interactions. An alternative version of this same "father" and "son" presents the older man gazing at the camera, a simple but significant gesture that calls into question how we perceive portrait photography through a turn of the head.
Repository
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University
See also a chromogenic print of the same work in the collection (2003.01.000).
Credit line
Art Properties, Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in the City of New York, Gift of the artist
Provenance
Gift to Columbia from the artist in 2021
CLIO BIB ID
16291586
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