Clyde Butcher

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Clyde Butcher (b. 1942) is an American photographer best known for wilderness photography of the Florida landscape.

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[edit] Background

Born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1942, Butcher led a nomadic lifestyle with his parents until attending California Polytechnic University in 1960, where he studied architecture. In 1963, he was impressed by Ansel Adams' work on display at Yosemite National Park. He married his wife, Niki, in 1964.

After college, Butcher had began a career in architecture, and was responsible for a portion of the design of the TransAmerica Tower in San Francisco, California. Butcher tried to present his work in architecture by filming small models of people using the facility. By 1970, he left architecture for landscape photography.

The Butchers moved to Florida in the mid-1980s and purchased Orchid Isle, a former orchid farm in the middle of the Big Cypress National Preserve. When their son Ted was killed by a drunk driver, Clyde retreated to the wilderness for solace and restoration. He put aside his color photography and became a black-and-white landscape photographer. Butcher creates his images with large-format cameras ranging from 5x7" up to 16x20".

[edit] Awards

  • Inducted into the Florida Artists Hall of Fame, 1998[1]
  • Ansel Adams Award from the Sierra Club, 2000 [2]
  • North American Nature Photography Association, Lifetime Achievement Award in Nature Photography, 2005[3]
  • Best Florida Artist, [4] Florida Magazine Best of Florida 2006

[edit] Recent major projects

  • America the Beautiful, on display Sep-Oct 2007 at the Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia.
  • Apalachicola River: An American Treasure. Photographic exhibit and documentary film with cinematographer Elam S. Stoltzfus.[5]
  • Living Waters: Aquatic Preserves of Florida. Photographic exhibit and documentary film with cinematographer Elam S. Stoltzfus [[6]
  • Visions for the Next Millennium. Traveling photographic installation, 2000-2001..

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