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 began a career in architecture, and was responsible for a portion of the design of the TransAmerica Tower in San Francisco, California. 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 8x10" up to 12x20".
[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..
[edit] References
- Clyde Butcher's website
- Ansel Adams & Clyde Butcher
- Clyde Butcher: Hall of Fame, Florida Division of Cultural Affairs
- Florida State University Featured Artists
- Film on Aquatic Preserves wins national award, Florida Department of Environmental Protection
- Clyde Butcher, A Photographer In The Heart Of The Everglades, Shutterbug, Feb 2004
- Butcher's Florida, in living black, white
- Nature lovers get deep in the muck, Miami Herald, September 5, 2006
- Aglow with the swamp treatment, Fort Myers News-Press, August 25, 2006
- Shroder, Tom (1996). Seeing the Light.
