Tina Barney’s keenly observed portraits offer a window into a rarified world of privilege. With sixty large-format works imbued with a spontaneity and intimacy, Barney’s monograph Family Ties reminds us of what we hold in common.
For our February 2025 Aperture PhotoBook Club gathering, Aperture’s executive director, Sarah Meister, joined Barney in an eye-opening and generous conversation on the artist’s career and newest photobook.
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This event took place on January 23, 2025. Support for the 2025 Aperture PhotoBook Club is generously provided by FotoFocus.
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.
Sarah Meister is executive director of Aperture. She joined Aperture in May 2021, following more than twenty-five years at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She is the founder and host of the Aperture PhotoBook Club.
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