Janet Borden, Inc. is pleased to announce TINA BARNEY/SILVER SUMMERS, the long-awaited exhibition of black and white photographs by TINA BARNEY.

Concurrent with her extraordinarily nuanced color photographs, Barney has been photographing her subjects in black and white for the past twelve years. Still using a large format camera, she now translates the scenes into graphic tones of white and black. These are not just de-colored images; for Barney, they are an examination of another way of photographing.

The vagaries of scale are more visible in these pieces. What's large is writ small--people are dwarfed by their surroundings or dominate their space. Playing with scale, Barney makes a mannequin head and a baby seem interchangeable. A woman looms over her hapless barbecue, and a young man floats in his space. The reduced palette allows Barney to play with these two-dimensional planes.

The performative quality of her work is almost easier to see in these gelatin-silver (not digital) prints. The prints are as seductive as ever, and the content appears more graphic. Summer activities and life among her friends is again the nominative subject. But as always with Barney’s work, it is the interaction of her characters both with each other and their milieu, which is her true interest.

An accompanying catalogue has been designed by renowned book designer Chip Kidd.

Tina Barney was born in 1945 in New York. Since 1975, she has been producing large-scale photographs of family and friends. Her meticulous tableaux chronicle the complexity of inter- personal relationships. These lush color prints have been exhibited and collected by major institutions around the world. Barney was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Her monographs include Tina Barney: Theatre of Manners, published by Scalo in 2007,The Europeans, published by Steidl in 2005, and Players, also published by Steidl in 2010. She lives in New York and Rhode Island.