Object Details
- Artist
- Barbara Bosworth, born Cleveland, OH 1953
- Exhibition Label
- Barbara Bosworth’s photographs of bird banders honors the gestures of ordinary people who capture and release songbirds to study their migratory patterns. In these rare moments of physical contact, they sense the quick pulse of these delicate creatures, poised to take flight the instant they are released. Bosworth discovered gestures in Renaissance paintings by Fra Angelico and Lorenzo Veneziano that resembled her own images: “I was amazed by a painting of a saint with his arms extended, releasing a bird towards heaven. It reminded me of the motion made when these captive birds are set free.”
- The Singing & the Silence: Birds in Contemporary Art, 2014
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Haluk and Elisa Soykan
- Copyright
- © 2003, Barbara Bosworth
- 2003
- Object number
- 2008.2.22
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
- Medium
- chromogenic print
- Dimensions
- 18 1/4 x 23 1/4 in. (46.4 x 59.1 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Animal\bird\cardinal
- Record ID
- saam_2008.2.22
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk75e27a0a1-02ab-490a-a03a-ec651d9a7683
