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Photographer Tracey Baran’s Intimate Take on Life

Tracey Baran’s life — chunks of it, at least — will be on display at Leslie Tonkonow Projects starting tomorrow. Baran, who died last year at 33 after a brief illness, photographed her naked father slumped in a bathtub and her gray-haired mother snuggled into the neck of a horse with a vast snowy landscape behind her. After her first New York solo show, in 1998, the artist — who has been compared to Nan Goldin and Ryan McGinley, but also to William Eggleston — saw her reputation soar. She garnered six solo shows, including a major exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago in 2002. These fifteen photos, full of humor but also some horror, will show through October 17.

Photographer Tracey Baran’s Intimate Take on Life