With “Beginnings,” the photographer Tina Barney is regrouping and going back to her roots, through works that she describes as “loose sketches a painter might use to plan for a larger painting.”
,” and the exhibitions that preceded it, were breakthroughs. Suddenly, she was in the avant-garde alongside a group of photographers—including Gregory Crewdson, Jeff Wall, Annie Leibovitz, Larry Sultan, and Philip-Lorca diCorcia—who approached their medium like filmmakers. The directorial mode wasn’t exactly new. Richard Avedon and Helmut Newton had been turning their fashion sittings into extended narratives for decades.
Barney’s introductory text in “Theater of Manners” is remarkably revealing. Even after she’d worked up the courage to arrange family and friends for her pictures, she writes, she still felt that she was “invading a privacy that every family holds within itself.” Growing up, she was never allowed in her parents’ quarters, she explains, and “to go into the living-room was almost a daring thing to do, like I was crossing some kind of ‘out-of-limits’ border.
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