Barbara Bosworth's Triptychs

Abstract

This essay is a close study of the landscape triptychs of the past fifteen years by the renowned photographer Barbara Bosworth. Her three-part photographs are only one portion of her output, but the author became fascinated by the visual artifices she used to interpret New England and other American landscapes. He shows that by slight movements of her view camera she gave each of her three views a field of its own although they form an interlinked panorama. It is through these three partly autonomous views that she creates her poetic and often autobiographical interpretations of particular landscapes in forceful black and white and in ravishing color.