Barbara Bosworth
- Born
- Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- Biography
Photographer Barbara Bosworth focuses on landscape photography and is particularly interested in the interrelatedness of man and the natural environment. Subdued and ironic, her work often reveals the sacredness of the land and the effects of human encroachment. She has frequently photographed the stripping of the land for suburban and agricultural use, documenting the construction of golf courses, cemeteries, and farming tracts over unspoiled lands. Bosworth's keen observation has also captured many quiet moments in nature, through images of Yellowstone National Park, Niagara Falls, and the National Champion trees of Ohio, among others.
Bosworth received her MFA in 1983 from Rochester Institute of Technology. She has taught at the Massachusetts College of Art since 1984. Her work has been included in many exhibitions across the United States, including the National Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. and the Cleveland Museum of Art. She has been a recipient of Guggenheim and Ruttenberg fellowships. She resides in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Merry A. Foresta, Stephen Jay Gould, and Karal Ann Marling Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography (Washington, D.C. and Albuquerque, New Mexico: The National Museum of American Art in association with the University of New Mexico Press, 1992)
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