”Our explorations were slow and quiet meanders, as my father proclaimed the joys of looking at the natural world we passed through. On these walks I learned to love being in nature.” 

— Barbara Bosworth 

Hardcover with tip-inn image
11.5 x 14.25 inches
120 pages / 33 duotone and 15 color images
ISBN: 9781934435601

Over a period of twenty years, renowned Boston artist BARBARA BOSWORTH took photographs of her family in and around her childhood home in Novelty, Ohio. Natural Histories takes us on a meandering journey through the forests and streams of Bosworth’s past in the Chagrin River Valley, as she retraces her youthful walks to reengage the sense of wonder at the landscape instilled by her father. 

These lush black-and-white photographs made with an 8 x 10 camera reveal a place Bosworth knows well: a place in which to dig up arrowheads, pluck clusters of blackberries, catch fireflies and savor the textures of nature. Featuring the youngest as well as the oldest members of Bosworth’s family, these images explore the joy of youth and the wistfulness of aging, memory, and the passage of time.