{"id":146197,"date":"2024-11-12T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parisselectbook.com\/2024\/11\/12\/tina-barney-the-american-bourgeoisie-at-the-jeu-de-paume\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T13:33:38","slug":"tina-barney-the-american-bourgeoisie-at-the-jeu-de-paume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parisselectbook.com\/en\/2024\/11\/12\/tina-barney-the-american-bourgeoisie-at-the-jeu-de-paume\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Barney: the American bourgeoisie at the Jeu de Paume"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Until January 19, 2025, the Jeu de Paume in Paris is devoting an exhibition to the American photographer Tina Barney. With her portraits of the American bourgeoisie and European aristocracy, Barney has been capturing images of high society since the 1980s. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Having herself come from this milieu, she observes her subjects with an intimacy that makes her photos a visual archive of these often inaccessible elites.<\/p>\n\n

An exploration of the American bourgeoisie<\/h2>\n\n

Tina Barney, born in 1945 in New York, grew up in the hushed world of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The daughter of a family that collected works of art such as those by Renoir and Degas, she discovered the visual richness of bourgeois interiors at an early age. It wasn’t until she was thirty that she took up photography, inspired by her collection of shots by Robert Frank<\/strong>, Lee Friedlander<\/strong> and Walker Evans<\/strong>. ” Collecting was probably the best learning tool I could have dreamed of,”<\/em> she confides, explaining how observing the masters of photography shaped her eye. <\/p>\n\n

Her career began with portraits of her own family and close circle. She captures everyday scenes, family moments in lavish settings, revealing the simplicity of everyday gestures within luxurious surroundings. This approach is reminiscent of Nan Goldin<\/strong>‘s, although Barney distinguishes herself through a more controlled technique and formal framework. Over the years, she immortalizes her sister, mother and friends from this social circle, maintaining a raw authenticity and an absence of staging. <\/p>\n\n

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