Take, for instance, Tina Barney's image "The Daughters," which presents a fortysomething couple and three daughters in a Parisian salon. In the foreground a thin blonde matron primps the youngest child, whose pink frock echoes hers and that of the vivacious middle child. In the background stand the husband and an ever so slightly plumpish older girl whose slumped posture and unmatched dress invite over interpretation: His child vs.