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Winston Swift Boyer

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.

Winston Boyer
Boyer in 2011
Born
Winston Swift Boyer

(1954-06-25) June 25, 1954 (age 70)[1]
Great Falls, Montana, US
EducationStevenson School (high school graduate)
Known forLandscape photography
RelativesJacques Boyer (brother)[2]
Websitewinstonboyer.com

Early life

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Boyer's photo of La Sal Mountains, Moab, Utah

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

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In 1974, Boyer went to France and got a job as a sports photographer covering bicycle racing.[5][6] During 1977, Boyer journeyed to Europe, documenting the Tour de France for cycling magazines.[7] He compiled a collection of photographs of European landscapes, peoples, and architecture, and held numerous exhibitions in American and European galleries.[5]

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 New York, Boyer received an advance from the Bulfinch Press imprint of Little, Brown and Company to travel the United States and assemble 64 photographs for the book American Roads. Travel writer and historian William Least Heat-Moon wrote the introduction to the book.[10]

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 Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Monterey Museum of Art, the Stanford Museum, the Fresno Art Museum, and the Crocker Art Museum.[2]

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

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  • — (1989). American Roads. Boston: Bulfinch Press/Little, Brown. ISBN 9780821217085. OCLC 19786578.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Winston Swift Boyer". www.winstonboyer.com. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Winston Philip Boyer". Casper Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyoming. February 13, 2000. p. 13. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
  4. ^ McGann, Bill; McGann, Carol (2008). The Story of the Tour de France 1965-2007 · Volume 2. Dog Ear Publishing, LLC. p. 133. ISBN 9781598586084. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
  5. ^ a b c Suppes, Christine; Aranda, Frederic (February 23, 2021). "Winston and Kate Boyer, Transforming the Ordinary". California Elegance, Portraits From the Final Frontier. Rizzoli. ISBN 9788891829801. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
  6. ^ "Winston Smith Boyer photographs on exhibit". Carmel Pine Cone. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. December 28, 1978. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
  7. ^ Rick Deragon (July 2, 1989). "Boyer's landscape pictures on view at Carmel gallery". Monterey Herald. Monterey, California. p. 4. Retrieved December 20, 2023.
  8. ^ Time-Life Books (1981). "The Artistry of Master Printmakers". Color. Alexandria, Virginia: Life Library of Photography. pp. 173, 208–209. ISBN 9780380705290. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
  9. ^ "Cibascapes". Camera 35. 26 (8): 26–33. August 1981.
  10. ^ Boyer, Winston Swift (1989). American Roads. Canada: Little, Brown and Company, Bullfinch Press. ISBN 9780821217085. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
  11. ^ "Fashionlines Staff". Fashionlines. Stanford, California. February 2005. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  12. ^ "Winston Boyer". Matthew Swift Gallery. Gloucester, Massachusetts. June 4, 2016. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ "Inside Eritrea: from tank cemeteries to futuristic architecture – in pictures". The Guardian. August 17, 2015. Retrieved August 4, 2022.

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