Tina Barney (born October 27, 1945)
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retrieved October 28, 2015 is an American photographer best known for her large-scale, color portraits of her family and close friends in New York and New England. She is a member of the
Lehman family The Lehman family is a prominent family of Jewish German-Americans who founded the financial firm Lehman Brothers. Some were also involved in American politics. Members have married into the prominent Morgenthau, Loeb, and Bronfman families.
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Early life and education
Barney was born Tina Isles,
[Stony Brook University: "Exteriors, Interiors, and Positionality: The Photography of Tina Barney - A Dissertation Presented by Susan A. Van Scoy]
May 2010 - p.44 one of three children of Philip Henry Isles (1912–1989) and his wife 1940s fashion model Lillian Fox. Her parents later divorced and her mother remarried to writer
Stephane Groueff. Her great-grandfather was
Emanuel Lehman
Emanuel Lehman (born Mendel Lehmann; February 15, 1827 – January 10, 1907) was a German-born American banker. The younger brother of Henry Lehman, he was a co-founder of Lehman Brothers.
Biography
Emanuel Lehman was born in Rimpar, Bavaria o ...
, co-founder of
Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. ( ) was an American global financial services firm founded in 1847. Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, a ...
. She was introduced to photography by her grandfather when she was a child. As a teenager, she studied Art History at Spence School in Manhattan, and at the age of 19, she lived in Italy for a time where she was able to further study art.
Barney first got involved with photography, when she was asked to volunteer for the Junior Council of the
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
in New York, around 1971, working in the photography department and cataloguing work for a show. She started to collect photographs and go to different galleries, to educate herself on the medium. After moving to
Sun Valley, Idaho in 1973, she started to take photography classes as a hobby. While in Idaho, she studied at th
Sun Valley Center for Arts and Humanitiesin Ketchum, from 1976 to 1979.
Additionally, she has completed workshops with
Frederick Sommer
Frederick Sommer (September 7, 1905 – January 23, 1999), was an artist born in Angri, Italy and raised in Brazil. He earned a M.A. degree in Landscape Architecture (1927) from Cornell University where he met Frances Elizabeth Watson (1904–199 ...
, Roger Mertin, Joyce Niemanas,
Duane Michals
Duane Michals ( "Michaels"; born February 18, 1932) is an American photographer. Michals's work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy.
Education and career
Michals's interest in ar ...
,
Nathan Lyons,
John Pfahl, and
Robert Cumming.
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Career
Barney is most well known for creating large format, colorful photographs of her wealthy, East Coast family. The images straddle the line between candid and tableau photography.[ Although, the wealthy became a sort of aesthetic in Barney's work, her "fascination is with the repetition of traditions and rituals. The idea that families no matter where they come from, kind of do the same thing." Barney's work is in the collections of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York; the ]Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.
It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
in New York City; the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas; the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection in New York City; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography
The Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) was founded in 1976 by Columbia College Chicago as the successor to the Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography. The museum houses a permanent collection as well as the Midwest Photographers Projec ...
. More recently her work has been shown at the New York State Theater
The David H. Koch Theater is a theater for ballet, modern and other forms of dance, part of the Lincoln Center, at the intersection of Columbus Avenue and 63rd Street in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Originally ...
in New York, in 2011; The Barbican Art Centre, London; Museum Folkwang in Essen, Museum der Art Moderne, Salzburg, and others.
Barney has also produced or co-directed short films on the photographers Jan Groover (''Jan Groover: Tilting at Space'', 1994) and Horst P. Horst (''Horst'', 1988). She had a documentary filmed about her life, aired 2007 on Sundance Channel, directed by Jaci Judelson. Barney has been the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in 1991, and the 2010 Lucie Award for Achievement in Portraiture.
Barney is currently represented by the Kasmin Gallery in New York City.
Personal life
In 1966, she married John Joseph Barney of Watch Hill, Rhode Island
Watch Hill is an affluent coastal neighborhood and census-designated place in the town of Westerly, Rhode Island. The population was 154 at the 2010 census. It sits at the most-southwestern point in all of Rhode Island. It came to prominence in t ...
. Her brother, Philip Henry Isles II, married to actress Alexandra Moltke
Alexandra Isles ( Alexandra Cornelia Moltke; born February 11, 1946) is a documentary filmmaker and former actress. She is best-known for her role as the original Victoria Winters from 1966 to 1968 on the gothic TV serial ''Dark Shadows''.
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Notable works
* ''Marina's Room,'' 1987
* ''Houselights,'' 1999
* ''Jill and the TV,'' 1989
* ''The Two Friends,'' 2002
Publications
* ''Players'' (Steidl, 2011)
* ''The Europeans'' (Barbican Art Gallery and Steidl, 2005)
* ''Friends and Relations: Photographs by Tina Barney'' (Smithsonian Institution, 1991)
Exhibitions
* ''Les Européens,'' Les Rencontres d'Arles, France, 2003. Curated by Janet Borden.
* ''The Europeans,'' Barbican Art Gallery
The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe. The centre hosts classical and contemporary music concerts, theatre performances, film screenings and art exhib ...
, London, 2005.
* ''Players,'' Janet Borden Inc., New York, 2010.
* ''The Europeans,'' Haggerty Museum of Art
The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, sometimes referred to simply as "the Haggerty", is located at 13th and Clybourn Streets on the campus of Marquette University in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The museum opened in 1 ...
, Milwaukee, WI, 2012.
* ''Small Towns,'' Janet Borden, Inc., New York, 2012.
* ''The Europeans,'' Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, 2015.
* ''Four Decades,'' Paul Kasmin Gallery
The Kasmin Gallery, formerly known as the Paul Kasmin Gallery, is a New York City fine art gallery, founded in SoHo in 1989.
History
The gallery was founded by its namesake as the Paul Kasmin Gallery in 1989 and was initially housed at 74 Grand S ...
, New York, 2015.
Awards and Grants
2010 - Lucie Award for Achievement in Portraiture
1991 - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Artist's Fellowship
References
External links
Paul Kasmin Gallery
Gallery 339
Sundance - Film about Barney titled "TINA BARNEY: SOCIAL STUDIES"
MoMa
Museum of Contemporary Photography
* ttp://www.architecturaldigest.com/blogs/daily/2015/05/tina-barney-paul-kasmin-gallery Architectural Digest - 2015
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American portrait photographers
1945 births
Living people
American people of German-Jewish descent
Artists from New York City
Lehman family
20th-century American photographers
20th-century American women photographers