Tina Barney: Family Ties

September 28, 2024 — January 19, 2025

The Jeu de Paume will showcase the vibrant, singular work of influential American photographer Tina Barney, who is best known for exploring intergenerational familial rituals and the subtle nuances of human connection.

Spanning over 40 years of the artist’s career, the exhibition marks the artist’s first European retrospective.
Born in 1945, Tina Barney began taking photographs of her relatives and friends in the late 1970s. A keen observer of family traditions, her work focuses on cultural habits within domestic settings. Her colorful and large-scale portraits may appear as family snapshots at first glance, however many have been carefully staged by the artist, creating intricate tableaux that establish a dialogue with classical painting. This exhibition will also include work from Barney’s editorial practice in which portraits of celebrities and models for fashion magazines and luxury brands share the same complexity, sensitivity, and humor found in her fine art practice.

Spanning the breadth of Barney’s career, the exhibition will include fifty-five large-scale works from Barney’s earliest through her most recent series, including those previously unseen in Europe.

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Tina Barney: The Beginning

Long-lost images of family and friends from the late 1970s by the acclaimed portraitist and chronicler of domesticity.

Photography by Tina Barney
Text by James Welling

Hardcover
11.75 x 11.75 inches
112 pages / 57 images

Trade ISBN: 9781955161138 — $60
Signed ISBN: 9781955161213 — $65

Now Rare: $150

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