Barbara Bosworth
Barbara Bosworth is a photographer whose large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the rest of the natural world. Whether chronicling the efforts of hunters or bird banders or evoking the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s caring attention to the world around her results in images that similarly inspire viewers to look closely.
Bosworth grew up in Novelty, Ohio. She currently lives in Massachusetts, where she is a professor of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Over her long career, Bosworth has photographed in both black and white and color. Her single images display a generous attention to small facts, while her large-scale triptychs reveal a panoramic awareness, one that lets viewers glimpse relationships between frames across a wide field. While all of Bosworth’s projects remind viewers not only that we shape the rest of nature but that it also shapes us.
Bosworth’s work has been widely exhibited, notably in recent retrospectives at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona. Her publications include, The Heavens (Radius Books, 2018), The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015), Natural Histories (Radius Books, 2013), Trees: National Champions (MIT Press; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2005) and Chasing the Light (Nightwood Press, 2002).
Exhibition Reviews
Denver Art Museum, March – September 2015
Peabody Essex Museum, April 2012 – March 2013
Smithsonian American Art Museum, June – November 2008
Princeton University Art Museum, March – June 2000
Book Reviews
Conscientious Magazine, October 2018
Paris Photo-Aperture PhotoBook of the Year Nomination, October 2016
Footprints, dew and an apple tree at the meadow, 2004
Midnight at the meadow, (the night the bird sang), 2006
One of the apple trees along the lane, 2004
Fireflies at moonrise, 2007
Sunrise over the treetops and tractor tracks at the meadow, 2003
Fireflies along the lane, 2005
Morning with horses, 2004
Waxing gibbous moon over the meadow, 2006
Apple tree and bittersweet along the overgrown lane, 2004
Morning frost and an apple tree at the meadow, 2003
Twilight and daffodils at the meadow, 2009
The Meadow, 2003
Moon rising over the meadow, 2005
Fall light on the meadow, 2003
Blue bird house, 2003
Bittersweet and an apple tree along the lane, 2004
Autumn along the lane, The Meadow, 2004
Moon rising, twilight at the meadow, 2004
Winter view down the lane, 2005
Apples along the lane, 2011
Moonrise and mist at the meadow, 2005
Fireflies along the lane, 2008
Evening shadow down the lane, 2003
View of the meadow, frosty dawn, 2003
Queen Anne’s Lace along the lane, 2006
Moonlight
1:30 – 4:30 am, Moon rising, Antelope Lake, 2011
Stars with airplane, two-hour exposure, July 5-6, 2011
Waxing gibbous moon, 2001
Waning gibbous moons, October 4, 2001
The sun, June 15, 2010
Milky Way, 55 minutes, July 11, 2002
Full moon over the meadow, 2004
Night, moon, meadow, 2004
The meadow in mist, twilight, 2004
The moon over the meadow, 2004
Waning gibbous, September 10, 2006
Evening, first quarter moon, October 2008
First quarter moon through the trees, Vermont, October 8, 2008
Dawn, looking east, July 11, 2002
Approaching dark, Vermont, 2008
The sun setting, 2001
Big dipper with clouds passing, 2010
Dawn stars, July 2011
Sunspots, September 9, 2001
Penumbral lunar eclipse, Wellfleet, 2013
Moon, Lolo Pass, 1996
Milky Way, August 29, 2011
Full moon night at Newcomb Hollow Beach, 1997
Moon and halo with Jupiter, August 21, 2011
The sun, June 30, 2016
Stars over light glow, July 12, 1990
The sun, June 30, 2016
Stars
Sun with solar filter, blue
Elsewhere, 1
Elsewhere, 2
Elsewhere, 3
Elsewhere, 4
Elsewhere, 5
Elsewhere, 6
Elsewhere, 7
Elsewhere, 8 (left)
Elsewhere, 8 (right)
Elsewhere, 9 (left)
Elsewhere, 9 (right)
Elsewhere, 11
Hounds at the tree, Lochsa River valley, 1992
Sun ball, Papoose Creek, Lochsa River valley, 1995
Bird in palm, 2001
Cottonwood, Bitterroot River, 1996
Cloud and leaf, 1999
Wolf, 2000
Sun through the clouds, 1999
Swan, Freezeout Lake,1995
Wrist, 1996
One star and a dark voyage,1997
Bear paws, 1994
Roses and fireflies at twilight, 2004
Rosemary's cut, 1996
My father’s last sunset, 2002
Moonset, Freezeout Lake, 1995
Moose, Big Brook Bog,1992
River’s edge, Bitterroot River, 1995
I miss you Kelly, 2001
Sunrise, Lochsa River, 1995
Spider web, Sanibel, 2001
Standing on a hill, 1999
Bird nest, Bitterroot River valley,1995
Worm in hand, Lochsa River valley, 1996
Bird flying, the sun, 2002
Sparkling tree, 1996
Black bear, Lochsa River valley, 1992
Jeff at the causeway, Sanibel, 1997
Sunset, 1999
One Star and a Dark Voyage
TIS Books, 2021
9 inches x 11 inches
foil stamped clothbound hardcover with tritone tip-on image
110 pages, 52 tritone images
ISBN 978-1-943146-16-1
The North Woods
ice frog press, 2021
Original essay by Barbara Bosworth
Set of 2 books, Edition of 175
8.5x11 embossed covers
Hand sewn saddle stitch binding
Book 1: 17 photos / 32 pages, Book 2: 18 photos / 36 pages
Sea of Clouds
Datzpress, 2021
34.7 × 28 cm
34 pages
Archival Pigment print / Accordion binding / Half Clamshell box
The Heavens
Radius Books
Texts by Margot Anne Kelley, Joanne Lukitsh, and Owen Gingerich
Hardcover with jacket
10.25 x 12.75 inches
60 images / 200 pages
ISBN: 9781942185406
The Meadow
Radius Books
Poetry by Margot Anne Kelley
Hardcover with jacket
10.25 x 12.75 Inches
200 pages / 60 images
Text on short trim inserts
Booklet in back pocket
ISBN: 9781934435960