Tina barney

‘A Picasso on the wall, a redhead whose hair matches the wooden panelling, an angel lamp echoing the bride’s dress – what a palette!’

Tina Barney is one of the most acclaimed fine art photographers in the U.S. She became well known photographing her real family in Rhode Island, and

Tina Barney was born in 1945. She is known for her large-scale, color portraits of her "American Royalty" family and close friends.

Learn why she’s drawn to family portraits -- plus, her top mother-children images in the history of art.

Taking a look at American photographer Tina Barney’s work capturing scenes of emotional and social ambiguity.

Since the early 1970s, Tina Barney (b. 1945) has been acutely observing individuals in ordinary domestic moments, capturing them with her signature large-format camera. As the subjects of her photographs stare outward, the viewer is drawn into their private worlds. This engagement marks an intimate and unparalleled study of the social and cultural lives of predominantly East

Barney’s photographs are at once a glimpse into the lives of the leisure class and candid meditations upon universal themes of family.

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This fall, the Jeu de Paume will showcase Tina Barney’s intimate, keenly observed images in her largest European retrospective.