This exhibition displays handmade photography books by artists Barbara Bosworth and Emily Sheffer, fall 2022 artists-in-residence at Tusen Takk, who produce books under the publishing imprint Dust Collective. Together, they've published titles From Where the Sun Now Stands (2020), Light of the Eclipse (2019), and Tide and Air (2019), all on view, featuring photography by Bosworth and book design and production by Sheffer. Bosworth's large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the natural world, and Sheffer's small-edition books are bound by hand, using formatting and design to emphasize the meaning of the work within.
During the exhibition’s run on October 5, join the artists for an artist’s talk, in-person at the Library and live-streamed via Zoom.
Artist Bios
Barbara Bosworth grew up in Novelty, Ohio, and along the shores of Lake Erie. She currently lives in Massachusetts, where she is professor emeritus of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Bosworth’s work has been widely exhibited, notably in retrospectives at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona. Her publications include The Heavens (Radius Books, 2018), The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015), Natural Histories (Radius Books, 2013), and Trees: National Champions (MIT Press; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2005).
Emily Sheffer is a fine art photographer and book artist. In 2017, she founded Dust Collective, a handmade photography book collective, and has since published over a dozen titles. She earned her BFA in Photography with Departmental Honors from The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in May of 2015. After graduation, Emily was listed as a 2015 LensCulture Top 50 Emerging Photographer. In 2019, Maine Media Workshops invited Emily to be their book-artist-in-residence. She currently works as a studio director in New England. Emily graduated in 2022 from The University of Hartford Photography MFA program, where she was awarded the Merit Scholarship.
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