Self-published Artist Books
The Heavens - Deluxe Edition
The Heavens deluxe edition features 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. Includes 3 handmade letterpress booklets in a custom lucite case, a 14x18-inch print (choice of The Milky Way or Moon Rising), and a signed copy of the book.
Queen Anne’s Lace
Photographs by Barbara Bosworth, words by Margot Anne Kelley, and illustrations by Elizabeth Billings.
Edition of 45. Custom stitching on front and rear inner pages. Letterpress cover. Unique photogram included in each book. 2017.
An ode to the delicate late summer bloom, Queen Anne's lace. Photography, poetry, and drawing intermingle on transparent and fiber papers, creating a rhythm that draws the viewer through the pages.
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Betula Populifolia
Betula Populifolia is a handmade book with letterpress printing. All images are inkjet prints on translucent paper, interleaved with Arches paper. Each book in the edition of 50 includes a pressed Grey Birch leaf. Letterpress by John Kristensen, Firefly Press, Boston, Massachusetts. Prints by Alex Knudsen, and binding by Emily Sheffer. Cover colors available in both blue and green. 2015.
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Summer Days and Some Nights: The Water’s Edge
Summer Days and Some Nights: The Water’s Edge is a book of photographs by Barbara Bosworth. The images were made in Maine during the summer of 2014 for the Georges River Land Trust. Each book in the edition of 100 includes a sand sample from the Saint George River in Maine. Designed by Alex Knudsen, and printed by Meridian Printing. Numbered and signed.
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Elsewhere
“Light is therefore color.”
— J. M. W. TURNER
Elsewhere is a series of images depicting an unknown place, where the lines of heaven and earth blur.
Includes (1) signed digital print, Deluxe Edition, 12.75x16-inch image on 14x18-inch paper, and Elsewhere, a boxed, limited edition portfolio of photographs by Barbara Bosworth with words by D'Anne Bodman. The handmade slipcase contains eleven individual folios with thirteen archival inkjet prints and letterpress text. Accompanying each edition of Elsewhere is an original, unique watercolor by Marie-Louise Bodman Petrie, and a signed copy of The Sea. Edition of 20.
Elsewhere: images by Barbara Bosworth, Words by D'Anne Bodman
12" x 13.5" | 11 folios | 13 archival inkjet prints
Letterpress by John Kristensen at Firefly Press, Boston, MA
Chasing the Light
Chasing the Light explores what we find and what escapes us in any moment. Experience reduced to the most essential and transformative elements. Through stopping time, the commonplace becomes extraordinary.
Chasing the Light is a letterpress edition of photographs by Barbara Bosworth with words by D’Anne Bodman. Firefly Press, in Boston, Massachusetts designed and printed the letterpress text. The images were printed by Meridian Printing.
2002, Edition of 300, 9.25” x 6.5”, 13 folios, 11 duotones, signed.
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