Barbara Bosworth American, 1953- Barbara Bosworth explores the landscape with her camera in order to understand how we interact with nature's more untamed elements. Working in both color and black and white, she captures outdoor human activities, from swimming and sightseeing to hunting and building. Her distanced eye reveals the harmony and the irony of people and their surroundings. In her series on the sacred burial mounds of the Adena and Hopewell Indians in Ohio, exhibited in a one-person show at the Cleveland Museum of Art (1988), Bosworth expresses both concern and reverence for this ancient religious site, now threatened by the sprawl of an industrial park. Her photographs of National Champion Trees-the largest of each American species-reflect a similar interest. An ongoing series about modern-day hunters, for which Bosworth received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1995), extends her investigations of primal interaction between man, animal, and woods. The black-and-white images are dense with personal and archetypal metaphors that address the continual cycles of life, death, and renewal. Born in Cleveland, Bosworth received a B.S. in accounting from Bowling Green State University (1973) and an M.F.A. in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology (1983). Awards include a Polaroid Materials Grant (1985-89) and fellowships from the Friends of Photography (1985), the Bernheim Foundation (1986), and the New England Foundation for the Arts (1993). She has taught at Colorado College (1990-93) and the Massachusetts College of Art (since 1984). Bosworth lives in Carlisle, Massachusetts. A.W.