Images focusing on the broad theme of the family and family relationships are becoming more and more popular at a time when the traditional nuclear family itself seems to be in crisis. Imaging the Family features the photographs of Tina Barney, Lorie Novak, and Larry Sultan. These three photographers have in common their highly effective use of color and scale and their selection of their own, "typical" family (and friends) as subject. Beyond these points of similarity, however, each of these artists has a very personal vision through the myriad and complex aspects of family life are illuminated.

image: Lorie Novak, The Barbecue, 1983