Tina Barney
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| Rating | : | 4.27 (850 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0847860361 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
“Tina Barney by Peter Galassi is a curated tome of her 43 year career as a chronicler of elite American life. She writes a thoughtful introduction of her childhood in the 50s, which brought on her interest in photography when her grandfather ‘had at least two kinds of cameras hanging around his neck, and they bounced off his fat tummy when he laughed.’ Decades come to an end but Barney’s images define each WASPy period” —Duck Goose
Her iconic images are in the permanent collections of numerous institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among others. . Tina Barney began her career in the mid-1970s when she started photograp
Her iconic tableaux suggest rich narratives or, as she has written, the “synchronization of psychological, emotional, and sociological plots that bind a family together.” Long awaited, this lavish survey is the most definitive book to date on Barney’s work.. Covering three decades of the artist’s provocative yet intimate large-scale color images capturing the domestic life and private moments of the American and European elite—her family and friends—this book will appeal to contemporary-art lovers, photography book collectors, and anyone with an interest in modern culture. In c