How her beautiful model mother inspired Tina Barney to become one of the fashion world’s top photographers
US photographer Tina Barney developed a fresh and unique style of fashion photography – here’s how she did it The post How her beautiful model mother inspired Tina Barney to become one of the fashion world’s top photographers appeared first on Amateur Photographer .
Tina Barney, the renowned US photographer best known for her large-format portrait images of affluent families in Europe and the US, has also made significant contributions to the fashion photography world. Born in New York in 1945, her mother, Lillian Fox, was a model turned interior decorator, which may have influenced her early interest in the fashion industry.
Despite her mother's modeling career, Barney's passion for photography emerged much later in life, when she was already a mother of two. In 1972, she began volunteering at the Museum of Modern Art's photography department, which sparked her fascination with the medium. Barney's unconventional path to becoming a photographer included collecting photographs by Robert Frank and Edward Weston, purchasing a 35mm Pentax camera, and enrolling in photography classes at the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.
Her unique style of capturing her family in large-format color images on an 8×10 plate camera set her apart from other photographers. Barney's foray into fashion photography began in 1987 when gallerist Janet Borden commissioned her to do a fashion editorial piece for Connoisseur magazine. This marked the start of her successful career in fashion photography, where she has been celebrated for her distinctive approach and ability to blend her family's world with the fashion industry.
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