FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 30, 2003
Wilderness photographer Clyde Butcher will make a presentation at the Museum of Texas Tech University titled "Visions for the Next Millennium" on Sunday, May 11, at 2 PM, in the Helen DeVitt Jones Auditorium at Fourth Street and Indiana Avenue.
Butcher's large format black and white photographs explore his personal relationship with the environment. The photographs chronicle some of America's most beautiful and complex ecosystems. The exquisite beauty and depth of his work draw the viewer into a relationship with nature. For more than 35 years, he has been preserving on film the untouched areas of the landscape. The large format camera that Butcher uses allows him to express the elaborate detail and textures that distinguish the intricacy of the landscape.
Butcher is a graduate in architecture
from the University of California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo
whose interests in spatial relationships and presentation of architectural
designs led him into the field of photography. From these early
formal interests, he became attracted to the landscape. Butcher
was recently honored with Florida's Artist Hall of Fame Award
for his photographic excellence. He was chosen as Person of
the Week on the ABC Peter Jennings evening news program and
received the Heartland Community Service Award for his
work in educating the people of Florida about the beauty of their
state. He also received the Conservation Colleague Award
by the Nature Conservancy. The Sierra Club honored Butcher with
its prestigious Ansel Adams Award to recognize his use
of still photography to further the cause of conservation and
his contribution to the public awareness of the environment.
The Exhibition Series lecture is presented in conjunction
with the exhibition Visions for the
Next Millennium: Wilderness Photography Focus on Preservation
on display from May 4 to June 29.
A grant from the Helen Jones Foundation, Inc., makes the public Exhibition Series possible free of charge. For more information or to request special assistance, please contact the Museum's Education office at (806)742-2432 (email museum.education@ttu.edu). Stay current with Museum programs and exhibitions online at www.museum.ttu.edu.