ARTIST TALK: Barbara Bosworth

Friday, July 17th, 2026 at 5:30pm
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Barbara Bosworth is a large-format photographer whose work explores the relationship between people and the rest of the natural world. In this lecture, Bosworth will speak about her decades-long photographic practice, highlighting series including The Meadow, Natural Histories, and One Star and a Dark Voyage. Moving between intimate observation and expansive landscape, her work reflects a sustained engagement with place, time, and ecological awareness.

Bosworth, who describes photography as a “long look,” suggests that quiet attention to the world is a way of caring for our shared natural environment, inviting viewers to slow down and consider their own relationship to the landscapes they inhabit.

 

About the artist: 

Barbara Bosworth is a photographer whose large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and 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 inspire viewers to look closely.

Over her long career, Bosworth has photographed with a large-format 8×10 camera. 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. All of Bosworth’s projects remind viewers not only that we shape nature but that it also shapes us.

Bosworth’s work has been widely exhibited, notably in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (2024), Cleveland Museum of Art (2024), Denver Art Museum (2015), Peabody Essex Museum (2012), and Smithsonian American Art Museum (2008).

Bosworth’s monographs include The Meadow (2015), The Heavens (2018), and The Sea (2021) published by Radius Books. She has also published with Dust Collective, TIS Books, Datz Press, and MIT Press, among others.

Bosworth is the recipient of a 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from The Cleveland Arts Prize.

Bosworth grew up in Novelty, Ohio, and lives in Massachusetts, where she is Professor Emeritus of Photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

 

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