The heavens / Barbara Bosworth.
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...
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| Other title: | David H. Tippit Collection. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Donor: | Rare Books Collection copy gift of the publisher, Radius Books, 2019. |
| Local Note: | Rare Books Collection copy David H. Tippit Collection. |
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Radius Books,
[2018]
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 195 pages, 58 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 33 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781942185406 1942185405 |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | Rare Books Collection copy gift of the publisher, Radius Books, 2019. |
| Ownership and Custodial History: | Rare Books Collection copy David H. Tippit Collection. |