Barbara Bosworth: The Heavens
“Each of her hour-long exposures transport me to the time and place when I saw that hot white streak burn across the sky, or admired the filtered light of the moon through silhouetted forest, or felt a crushing smallness while gazing at some far away galaxy. ”
—Julia Bennett, Lenscratch
Photography by Barbara Bosworth
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
Rare: $250
Limited edition of this book available HERE
Made over the past several years with an 8 × 10 camera, BARBARA BOSWORTH’s photographs of stars are hour-long exposures with the camera mounted on a clock drive. Her 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 seventeenth-century publications in which he first observed the skies through a telescope.