Artist

Tina Barney

born New York City 1945
Born
New York, New York, United States
Active in
  • Watch Hill, Rhode Island, United States
Biography

Tina Barney was born to a wealthy New York family in 1945. She began collecting photographs in 1971, which sparked her interest in doing her own work. In 1976 she and her husband moved to Sun Valley, Idaho, where she took photography classes at the local art center. During the 1980s Barney developed her photographic vision, focusing on the comfortable lives of the social elite; as a member of this class herself, she is able to photograph friends and family in intimate social settings usually unseen by the outside world. Barney's work is characterized by rich colors and deep focus, achieved through controlled lighting, that capture the material details of the lives of her subjects. Barney lives in New York City and Watch Hill, Rhode Island.

National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996)

Works by this artist (3 items)

Mark Klett, Panorama of San Francisco from California Street Hill, 1990, 13 gelatin silver prints, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Jeffrey Fraenkel and Frish Brandt, 2017.43.8A-M
Panorama of San Francisco from California Street Hill
Date1990
13 gelatin silver prints
Not on view
Mark Klett, Around Toroweap Point, just before and after sundown, beginning and ending with views used by J.K. Hillers, over 100 years ago, Grand Canyon, 1986, gelatin silver print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Consolidated Natural Gas Company Foundation, 1988.66A-E, © 1986, Mark Klett
Around Toroweap Point, just before and after sundown,…
Date1986
gelatin silver print
Not on view

Exhibitions

Media - 2010.6.1 - SAAM-2010.6.1_1 - 73336
Close to Home: Photographers and Their Families
February 4, 2011July 23, 2011
Close to Home presents photographs made during the past three decades by both established and emerging artists.