Winston Swift Boyer
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Winston Boyer | |
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Born | Winston Swift Boyer June 25, 1954[1] |
Education | Stevenson School (high school graduate) |
Known for | Landscape photography |
Relatives | Jacques Boyer (brother)[2] |
Website | winstonboyer |
Winston Swift Boyer (born June 25, 1954) is an American fine art photographer living in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and is best known for his color photography of landscapes in the United States and Europe.
Early life
He is the son of Winston Philip Boyer and Josephine Swift.[3][2][4] In 1972, Boyer graduated from Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach.[2]
Career
In 1974, Boyer went to France and got a job as a
Boyer's first one-man show was at the Lakey Gallery, in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California in 1979.[2] Boyer was described as one of six Master Printmakers in "The Artistry of Master Printmakers", a chapter in Color, a volume of the Life Library of Photography (Time/Life Books, 1981). The book contains two full-page photographs by Boyer, Night Angel, a twilight photograph of an apartment building from Nice, France, and California Coastal Vista from Morro Bay, California.[2][8] These photos were also published in the magazine Camera 35 (1981) along with a 1-page biographical overview that said when making landscapes, Boyer used two 35mm Leicas, 5 lenses and no tripod, and he did his own printing.[9]
In the mid-1980s, while living in
Boyer was a senior photography director for an early online editorial fashion e-magazine called Fashionlines, from the late 1990s to the early 2000s.[11] His portfolio includes the Ocean Series, Mask Series, American Landscape, Vertigo Series, Cannery Row, American Facades, The Views, European Gallery, and Eritrea, Africa.[2] While living on Garrapata Ridge in Big Sur for fourteen years, his Ocean Series evolved into large-scale photographs of the sea, sky, and clouds, often at sunset, from vantages in and near Big Sur.[12][13]
In 2015, Boyer travelled to Eritrea, where he photographed the people, landscapes, and architecture including the Hamasien Hotel, Fiat Tagliero Building, large hand-painted signs, street wall murals, Modernist architecture, and handmade terraces. The work was published as a piece called "Inside Eritrea: from tank cemeteries to futuristic architecture-in pictures" by The Guardian.[14]
Boyer's work is included in the permanent collections of the
According to California Elegance Portraits from the Final Frontier (2021), Boyer has been known for his landscapes and surreal tableaux.[5]
Boyer lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, with his wife Kathleen.[1]
Select publications
- — (1989). American Roads. Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown. OCLC 19786578.
See also
References
- ^ a b "Winston Swift Boyer". www.winstonboyer.com. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g Dennis Taylor (September 18, 2020). "Carmel's Artists, Hitting the photographer's bullseye" (PDF). Carmel Pine Cone. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. pp. 25–26. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
- ^ "Winston Philip Boyer". Casper Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyoming. February 13, 2000. p. 13. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
- ISBN 9781598586084. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
- ^ ISBN 9788891829801. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
- ^ "Winston Smith Boyer photographs on exhibit". Carmel Pine Cone. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. December 28, 1978. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
- ^ Rick Deragon (July 2, 1989). "Boyer's landscape pictures on view at Carmel gallery". Monterey Herald. Monterey, California. p. 4. Retrieved December 20, 2023.
- ISBN 9780380705290. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
- ^ "Cibascapes". Camera 35. 26 (8): 26–33. August 1981.
- ISBN 9780821217085. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
- ^ "Fashionlines Staff". Fashionlines. Stanford, California. February 2005. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
- ^ "Winston Boyer". Matthew Swift Gallery. Gloucester, Massachusetts. June 4, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
- ^ Walter Ryce (October 14, 2014). "Winston Swift Boyer's color-saturated photos from the edge of the continent at Gallery Sur". Monterey County Weekly. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
- ^ "Inside Eritrea: from tank cemeteries to futuristic architecture – in pictures". The Guardian. August 17, 2015. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
Further reading
- Watson, Lisa Crawford, Legendary Locals of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Arcadia Publishing Incorporated, July 6, 2015, page 47