Photographing the heirs and heirlooms of Europe’s old-world elite
It's been almost two weeks since Theresa May triggered Article 50, sending the UK hurtling towards a cliff edge and leading many to question where Britain fits in the great landmass known as Europe.
It's worth remembering that when the founding nations of the European Economic Community first got together in 1957, Britain initially said,"I'm alright, Jacques." It had fought a Great War. It had a great Commonwealth. It saw itself as different. What's more: that's how the rest of the continent saw it, too. When the prime minister Harold Wilson belatedly began making eyes at Brussels in the early 1960s, Charles de Gaulle famously said"non." Britain was"insular," he described, with"very marked and very original habits and traditions."
We know how the rest panned out, with Britain finally hooking up with Europe in 1973, only to vote to tear away again last year. But the question still remains: Is Britain detached from the continent culturally as well as physically? Or are there similarities that stretch across la Manche?. An eight-year Grand Tour of Austria , Italy , England , France , Spain , and Germany ,sees American-born Barney photographing the inner circle of the continent's Old World elite.
, that's how it all began. A frustration about trying to create an interesting structure in the photograph, because I felt that the photograph was such a boring, flat piece of paper. I was obviously borrowing from the Dutch 17th century painters, but also mostly the Italians, and I sort of thought, 'oh, why not try to do that in a photograph?' Directing the pictures to form a narrative and trying to create an interesting visual space, structure-wise.
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