Tina Barney “Silver Summers”
Janet Borden
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Janet Borden, Inc. announces TINA BARNEY/SILVER SUMMERS, the long-awaited exhibition of black and white photographs by TINA BARNEY.
Concurrent with her extraordinarily nuanced color photographs, Barney has been photographing her subjects in black and white for the past twelve years. Still using a large format camera, she now translates the scenes into graphic tones of white and black. These are not just de-colored images; for Barney, they are an examination of another way of photographing.
The vagaries of scale are more visible in these pieces. What’s large is writ small—people are dwarfed by their surroundings or dominate their space. Playing with scale, Barney makes a mannequin head and a baby seem interchangeable. A woman looms over her hapless barbecue, and a young man floats in his space. The reduced palette allows Barney to play with these two-dimensional planes.
The performative quality of her work is almost easier to see in these gelatin-silver (not digital) prints. The prints are as seductive as ever, and the content appears more graphic. Summer activities and life among her friends is again the nominative subject. But as always with Barney’s work, it is the interaction of her characters both with each other and their milieu, which is her true interest.
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from October 22, 2014 to December 06, 2014