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Photographer:
Bosworth, Barbara 1953-  Search this
Author:
Container of (work): Bosworth, Barbara 1953- Moon  Search this
Container of (work): Bosworth, Barbara 1953- Heavens (Artists' book)  Search this
Container of (work): Bosworth, Barbara 1953- Sunspots  Search this
Contributor:
Kelley, Margot Anne  Search this
Gingerich, Owen  Search this
Lukitsh, Joanne  Search this
Publisher:
Radius Books  Search this
Subject:
Bosworth, Barbara 1953-  Search this
Physical description:
195 pages, 58 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm
Type:
Pictorial works
Photobooks
Facsimiles
Date:
2018
Notes:
A preface by Barbara Bosworth ([40] pages) and 3 facsimile editions of artist's books by Bosworth are tipped-in throughout. Facsimile titles are: The moon ([12] leaves), The heavens ([12] leaves), and Sunspots ([14] leaves).
AAPGMAIN copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment.
Contents:
Preface / Barbara Bosworth -- Time travels / Margot Anne Kelley -- The moon -- The heavens -- The sun -- Galileo's observations / Owen Gingerich -- A nod to John Herschel / Joanne Lukitsh -- Appendix
Summary:
A follow-up to her successful 2015 book The Meadow, this project focuses on Boston-based photographer Barbara Bosworth's (born 1953) images of the moon, sun and sky. Made over the past several years with an 8x10 camera, the star images are hour-long exposures with the camera mounted on a clock drive. The sun and moon images are made with a telescope attached to her camera. Speaking of her inspiration for these images, Bosworth writes: "Every clear night of the summer my father would go out for a walk to look at the night sky. Many nights I would join him. We knew the North Star, and the Big Bear, but the rest became our own. At times we stood still for an hour or more to watch for shooting stars. We had no agenda. It was all about amazement at a sky full of stars. With this sense of wonder, I began making photographs of the Heavens. In these days of the Hubble Telescope and its spectacular imagery from deep space, I wanted a reminder of the mystery of our own night sky." The book also includes facsimile editions of three artist's books that Bosworth has made as a nod to Galileo's 17th-century publications in which he first observed the skies through a telescope.
Topic:
Photography, Artistic  Search this
Lunar photography  Search this
Astronomical photography  Search this
Stars  Search this
Skies in art  Search this
Artists' books  Search this
Call number:
TR647 .B745 2018
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1105194