Tina Barney Book Signing at Dashwood Books

Join Aperture and Dashwood Books for a book signing to celebrate the release of Tina Barney’s latest monograph, Family Ties (Aperture, 2024).

Family Ties collects sixty large-format portraits from the three decades that defined Barney’s career.

In the late 1970s, Tina Barney began a decades-long exploration of the everyday but often hidden life of the New England upper class, of which she and her family belonged. Photographing close relatives and friends, she became an astute observer of the rituals common to the intergenerational summer gatherings held in picturesque homes along the East Coast. Developing her portraiture further in the 1980s, she began directing her subjects, giving an intimate scale to her large-format photographs. These personal, often surreal scenes present a secret world of the haute bourgeoisie—a landscape of hidden tension found in the subtle gestures of “disruption” that belie the dreamlike worlds of patrician tableaux.

This program is presented in partnership with Dashwood Books.

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Tina Barney (born in New York, 1945) is an American photographer best known for her large-scale color portraits of family and close friends in New York and New England. Her books include The Europeans (2005), Players (2011), and Tina Barney: The Beginning (2023). She lives in New York and Rhode Island.

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Image: Tina Barney, Family Commission with Snake, 2007; from Tina Barney: Family Ties (Aperture, 2024). © 2024 Aperture