Alongside her oeuvre of portraits portraying the daily life of the social elite that American photographer Tina Barney is most known for, exists an entire series of landscape photographs taken by her using an 8 by 10-inch view camera. Barney first began her experimentation with landscape photography in the late 1980s and would not revisit the subject again until the summer of 2017. Returning to her familiar New England backdrop, Barney champions distant views of shingled houses, rocky coastlines, small town thoroughfares and main street squares, challenging herself out-of-doors to refine and build upon her compositional tactics.
Capturing families and friends at informal moments of American, predominantly Northeastern, society through her humanist lens, Barney consistently demonstrates that life in this rarified world is idiosyncratic and spontaneous in its own way. These landscapes encapsulate the “fly-on-the-wall” sensation of her portraits, and perhaps offer a parallel picture of these same families outside of their home, and in their immediate, acquainted surroundings.
Tina Barney, Landscapes
January 17 through March 3, 2018
Paul Kasmin Gallery
515 W 27th St
New York, NY 10001
USA
