Birds and Other Angels by Barbara Bosworth features large-format color photographs of birds in the hands of the people who study them, reflecting on care, attention, and the fragile interdependence between humans and the natural world. The essay, “My Favorite Angel Lives in the Met” by Laura Howes, (Professor Emerita, English and Medieval Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) accompanies the photographs.
Five fold-outs throughout the book create an expansive view of the natural world, as seen through Bosworth’s customary 8×10 camera.
Bosworth writes, “Birds, to me, are wonderment. A flash of color, a song. I feel fortunate to have grown up in a family that paid attention to them.
The photographs in this book were made with an 8x10 film camera while working with bird banders in northeast Ohio and central Massachusetts. Bird banding is a method used to study behavior, track migration routes, and monitor populations. Licensed banders catch and then release the birds, collecting data that becomes part of a larger ecological archive.
Birds are deeply affected by shifts in climate, land use, and human presence. They remind us our world is fragile. With the banders, I found a generous community of people who treat the world with respect. My wish, before it is too late, is for us to all care for the environment, and pay attention to the birds and angels in our lives.”
Special Edition includes one signed 8.5”x11” archival pigment print made by the artist, and a signed copy of Birds and Other Angels housed in a custom, gold foil stamped slipcase.
Birds and Other Angels is available for pre-order and will ship in Spring 2026
More Details
Printed in Denmark
9” x 12.25”
88 pages with 5 fold-outs
50 images
Hard cover with tipped-in image
Gold foil stamped spine
Text by Barbara Bosworth
Design by Emily Sheffer
Published by Dust Collective
Spring 2026
ISBN 979-8-9947363-0-2
Barbara Bosworth is a photographer whose large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the natural world.
Barbara Bosworth’s large format photographs explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the natural world. Whether chronicling the efforts of hunters or bird banders or evoking the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s caring attention to the world around her results in images that inspire viewers to look closely.
Over her long career, Bosworth has photographed with a large-format 8x10 camera. Her single images display a generous attention to small facts, while her large-scale triptychs reveal a panoramic awareness, one that lets viewers glimpse relationships between frames across a wide field. All of Bosworth’s projects remind viewers not only that we shape nature but that it also shapes us.
Bosworth’s work has been widely exhibited, notably in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (2024), Cleveland Museum of Art (2024), Denver Art Museum (2015), Peabody Essex Museum (2012), and Smithsonian American Art Museum (2008).
Bosworth is the recipient of a 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from The Cleveland Arts Prize.
Bosworth grew up in Novelty, Ohio, and lives in Massachusetts, where she is Professor Emeritus of Photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.by
Birds and Other Angels by Barbara Bosworth features large-format color photographs of birds in the hands of the people who study them, reflecting on care, attention, and the fragile interdependence between humans and the natural world. The essay, “My Favorite Angel Lives in the Met” by Laura Howes, (Professor Emerita, English and Medieval Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) accompanies the photographs.
Five fold-outs throughout the book create an expansive view of the natural world, as seen through Bosworth’s customary 8×10 camera.
Bosworth writes, “Birds, to me, are wonderment. A flash of color, a song. I feel fortunate to have grown up in a family that paid attention to them.
The photographs in this book were made with an 8x10 film camera while working with bird banders in northeast Ohio and central Massachusetts. Bird banding is a method used to study behavior, track migration routes, and monitor populations. Licensed banders catch and then release the birds, collecting data that becomes part of a larger ecological archive.
Birds are deeply affected by shifts in climate, land use, and human presence. They remind us our world is fragile. With the banders, I found a generous community of people who treat the world with respect. My wish, before it is too late, is for us to all care for the environment, and pay attention to the birds and angels in our lives.”
Special Edition includes one signed 8.5”x11” archival pigment print made by the artist, and a signed copy of Birds and Other Angels housed in a custom, gold foil stamped slipcase.
Birds and Other Angels is available for pre-order and will ship in Spring 2026
More Details
Printed in Denmark
9” x 12.25”
88 pages with 5 fold-outs
50 images
Hard cover with tipped-in image
Gold foil stamped spine
Text by Barbara Bosworth
Design by Emily Sheffer
Published by Dust Collective
Spring 2026
ISBN 979-8-9947363-0-2
Barbara Bosworth is a photographer whose large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the natural world.
Barbara Bosworth’s large format photographs explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the natural world. Whether chronicling the efforts of hunters or bird banders or evoking the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s caring attention to the world around her results in images that inspire viewers to look closely.
Over her long career, Bosworth has photographed with a large-format 8x10 camera. Her single images display a generous attention to small facts, while her large-scale triptychs reveal a panoramic awareness, one that lets viewers glimpse relationships between frames across a wide field. All of Bosworth’s projects remind viewers not only that we shape nature but that it also shapes us.
Bosworth’s work has been widely exhibited, notably in solo exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (2024), Cleveland Museum of Art (2024), Denver Art Museum (2015), Peabody Essex Museum (2012), and Smithsonian American Art Museum (2008).
Bosworth is the recipient of a 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from The Cleveland Arts Prize.
Bosworth grew up in Novelty, Ohio, and lives in Massachusetts, where she is Professor Emeritus of Photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.by
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