Tina Barney

Tina Barney's photographs have mostly been images which record her family. However, they are not the typical family portraits or album photographs, they are images which expose emotions and psychological currents of the subjects within them and seem to have so much more implied meaning because of it. Another aspect of her photography would be the settings, and how her figures seem to be molded into the settings, as if they are a part of the place they live in. The narrative quality of these photographs may be fictional in nature, as perhaps they are not idealized or true representations of the personalities of her family members. However, the cold, stark emotions--so raw and vivid--that are received from the subjects is just stunning.