Now Available: “Diana’s Baths”
In residence at Tusen Takk in during the months of September and October 2022, Emily Sheffer and Barbara Bosworth collaborated to create a handmade photography book centering Bosworth’s photographic series. In Diana’s Baths, Bosworth’s images of waterfalls, a sunrise swim, or simply watching elk graze from the warm waters of a hot spring evoke the mythological ambiance of a woodland pool.
Each multi-paneled image, made with an 8x10 film camera, abounds with detail, leaving the viewer feeling immersed in the surrounding landscape.
Together, Bosworth and Sheffer have carefully crafted this series of landscape images into a special edition, hand-bound artist book that speaks to the mystery and wonder of a small moment in the solitude of the woods.
First ten orders include a signed 8”x10” inkjet print of the cover image, Deer, 1986
Edition of 30
10”x14”
7 multi-panel images, each with gate fold. Hand-bound with custom printed cover.
Autumn 2022, Designed by Emily Sheffer and published by Dust Collective.
This book was made with support of the Tusen Takk Foundation.
Barbara Bosworth and Emily Sheffer have worked together for the past decade. In that time, they have collaborated on many projects, including several handmade photography books through the publishing imprint, Dust Collective. These titles include, From Where the Sun Now Stands (2020), Light of the Eclipse (2019), and Tide and Air (2019). These titles feature photography by Barbara Bosworth and book design and production by Emily Sheffer.
Barbara Bosworth grew up in Novelty, Ohio, and along the shores of Lake Erie. She currently lives in Massachusetts, where she is professor emeritus of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Bosworth’s work has been widely exhibited, notably in retrospectives at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona. Her publications include The Heavens (Radius Books, 2018), The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015), Natural Histories (Radius Books, 2013), and Trees: National Champions (MIT Press; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2005).
Emily Sheffer is a fine art photographer and book artist. In 2017, she founded Dust Collective, a handmade photography book collective, and has since published over a dozen titles. She earned her BFA in Photography with Departmental Honors from The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in May of 2015. After graduation, Emily was listed as a 2015 LensCulture Top 50 Emerging Photographer. In 2019, Maine Media Workshops invited Emily to be their book-artist-in-residence. She currently works as a studio director in New England. Emily graduated in 2022 from The University of Hartford Photography MFA program, where she was awarded the Merit Scholarship.
