TINA BARNEY: FASHION
Aperture
October 2026
ESSAY
Living Well is the Best Revenge
Part memoir, part survey, Tina Barney: Fashion explores style and sartorial expression across the celebrated portraitist’s career.
Blending personal history, family albums, and work made on assignment, this book offers a fresh take on a classic American photographer. Celebrated for her large-format tableaux of affluent families in the United States and Europe, Tina Barney is a keen observer of style and its coded web of meanings. This book is the first to trace the role of sartorial expression across Barney’s long career, including a significant body of inventive editorial work made on assignment for leading magazines.
Living Well is the Best Revenge
Part memoir, part survey, Tina Barney: Fashion explores style and sartorial expression across the celebrated portraitist’s career.
Blending personal history, family albums, and work made on assignment, this book offers a fresh take on a classic American photographer. Celebrated for her large-format tableaux of affluent families in the United States and Europe, Tina Barney is a keen observer of style and its coded web of meanings. This book is the first to trace the role of sartorial expression across Barney’s long career, including a significant body of inventive editorial work made on assignment for leading magazines.