Taking Direction: An Interview with Tina Barney
Pelican Bomb

Over the last four decades, photographer Tina Barney has captured her family and friends on film, recording moments both intimate and formal with an acute awareness of how people act around each other. On the occasion of “Tina Barney: Photographs,” on view this past winter at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Drew Sawyer, William J. and Sarah Ross Soter Associate Curator of Photography at the Columbus Museum of Art, spoke with Barney about her process, the photographs at NOMA, and showing photos in both museums and magazines.