Artist Lecture: Barbara Bosworth

I went to the artist lecture about Barbara Bosworth. I am really glad that I went to her lecture because I appreciated her work and especially hearing about how she decided to take the pictures and I especially appreciated how at the end she said that personal photographs are okay, she actually prefers the ones of family, one would just need to learn how to arrange it in a way that it is breathtaking.

She started off the lecture by saying that she tried to incorporate life and death though her landscapes. Starting off telling us about her childhood in Ohio, where she learned how to view the world through a rectangle, because in her house there was this huge rectangular window and thats where she would end up looking out at the world.I appreciated how she just took pictures of what she wanted, if she was into waterfalls at the time she would take pictures of waterfalls then she took pictures of environment. Through her lens she learned so much, at first taking pictures of the environment then of the people in the environment, learning that people matter too, they are a part of the surroundings. She then showed a photograph of, I believe, her nephew reading under a tree, using the shadow as a cover from the sun. I enjoyed how she just wanted to show life and how we take the small things for granted. Such as when she was photographing the trees, she went to Arizona and found the largest Chokecherry and it was placed right on a cliff, as if hanging on for dear life.

Towards the end of the lecture she started talking about her family and how she started taking pictures of them because this way they could never be taken away from her, which I thought to be an amazing way to look at photography. Taking pictures of fireflies even had meaning towards when her mother was diagnosed with Parkinson's, showing that they are hanging onto the light as she was. Over all I thought her work was inspiring and I loved hearing her talk about her life experiences. I found many of her photographs to be breathtaking and fascinating.