Tina Barney "I began photographing what I knew"

I didn't know Tina Barney before she has been exhibited at Jane Borden Gallery. The exhibition called The Players. I was very surprised about her work and how she deals with it.

 Marina and Peter, 1997

Barney is an American artist, photographer. She was born in 1945 and grown in wealthy family. Her grandfather introduced her to photography when she was a young girl and at 26, she began collecting photographs.
Tina Barney began to practice photography in the mid-1970 with a 35mm camera and then she abandoned it for a large format 8*10 unit.

 Marina's room, 1987

She started taking pictures of her family and of old friends in Rhode Island and increased her horizon.
Hers pictures are a documentation of the life styles and relationships of people who belong to the social Elite in USA, but also in Europe. She uses a large format whist permits to see the environmental detail. She always photographies her subject in their own homes and often in a room specific.
Tina Barney is one of the first photographers to present color work on a large scale.
She was influenced by the painters Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard.


A little interview about her work:

Tina Barney, Spring 2010 Photo Shoot

Credits for photos : Tina Barney, Janet Borden, Inc ©
http://www.janetbordeninc.com/artists/Barney

Antonio Caballero, Las Rutas de la Pasión, Mexico 1960's -1970's

Macaria, fotonovela para la revista “Capricho”, ca. 1970

"Fotonovela"; "photo-story" is the exact word that I will use to define the work of the photographer Antonio Caballero. When I saw his exhibition at Sikkema, Jenkins & Co's gallery, I felt somewhere like going to the theatre or leaf through a comic strip in a corner of a bookstore. 
So, it is not a coincidence that Antonio Caballero is regarded as one of the greatest photographer of fotonovelas in the 60's and the 70's in Mexico. He was born in 1940 in Mexico City. He discovered the photography when his step-father bought him a Brownie Fiesta camera and during his adolecence he began his apprentice as a photojournalist.
Soon his photographs appeared in several well- know Mexican newspapers and magazines like Guerre al Crimen, Revista de Policia and Nota Roja.
In 1963 Caballero was introduced to the "fotonovelas", which are small graphic novels with storyboard format and dialogue bubbles that were popular in Italy, Spain and throughout Latin America from the 1940’s through the 1980’s.
He made no less than five hundred graphic novels between 1963 and 1978.
His fotovelas shows dramatic mise-en-scenes which suggest narratives of love, tragedy and suspense.
The exhibition is a testament to Antonio Caballero’s talent as a photographer and director that the individual photographs remain powerful on their own.

Julián Pastor y Ofelia Medina, fotonovela para la revista “Amiga”, ca. 1973

“Peinados” reportaje para la agencia de publicidad Martínez Vergara, ca. 1960

 

Verónica Castro, fotonovela para la revista “Capricho”, ca. 1970

Lucía Guilmain y Carlos Riquelme, fotonovela “Generación Jet” para la revista
“Novelas de amor”, ca. 1970

Credits for photos : © Antonio Caballero, Sikkema, Jenkins & Co
http://www.sikkemajenkinsco.com/exhibitions.html 

Andy Warhol, Big Shots

 Andy Warhol

I do not remake history of the greatest artist Andy Warhol who all of you know as an iconic member of the movement Pop of the 1960's. But I would advise you about his photographies, The Polaroids Big Shots which are not best known.

Truman Capote

Diana Vreeland

The Big Shot was one of the most unique cameras Polaroid  ever introduced. It was created for practical purposes like the quick creation of I.D, portrait use only, and had a fixed focal distance of a few feet.
Andy Warhol bought one in 1970 and started to shot the celebrity confidantes such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Truman Capote, Dorothy Hamill, Bianca Jagger, Grace Jones, Jack Nicklaus and former Cars vocalist Rick Ocasek.
Andy Warhol was a big fan of this camera. The Polaroid was an important ressource for him, in fact his Polaroids served as aids for painting portraits and allowed him to create memorable, varied, and iconic compositions of the greatest personnalities from his time.
The exhibition gathers together about thirty Polaroids, dating from 1970 and 1986.
An important exhibition "Big Shots : Andy Warhol Polaroids" was also presented at Nasher Museum of Art in 2010.

Debbie Harry

Giorgio Armani

Credits for photos : © Andy Warhol, Danziger Projects
http://www.danzigerprojects.com/