Winston Boyer
Boyer in 2011
Born
Winston Swift Boyer

(1954-06-25) June 25, 1954[1]
Great Falls, Montana, US
Known forLandscape photography
AwardsFinalist in Ilfochrome's Cibachrome National Awards[2]
Websitewinstonboyer.com

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. Boyer's first gallery exhibition was in 1979.

Early life

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

He is the son of Winston Philip Boyer and Josephine Swift.[3] His brother Jonathan is a convicted child molester[4][5] and a former professional cyclist who, in 1981, became the first American to participate in the Tour de France.[6][7] In 1972, Boyer graduated from Robert Louis Stevenson School in Pebble Beach.[6]

Career

In 1974, Boyer visited his brother in France and got a job as a sports photographer covering bicycle racing.[8] During 1977, Boyer journeyed to Europe, documenting the Tour de France for cycling magazines.[9] During these times in Europe he compiled fine art photographs of European landscapes, peoples, architecture, and exhibited in both American and European galleries.[1] His Night Angel, a twilight photograph of an apartment building from Nice, France, and California Coastal Vista from Morro Bay, California, appeared in the publication of Time Life Books' 1981, in the chapter "The Artistry of Master Printmakers".[6][10]

Ansel Adams attended Boyer's 1981 exhibition at the Sunset Center in Carmel.[6] When Adams died on April 22, 1984, Boyer attended a reception five days later, with friends and fellow professionals, to open the Friends of Photography memorial exhibition for Adams at the Sunset Center. Boyer exhibited with the Friends of Photography organization in 1980 and 1985.[11]

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.[12]

Boyer was a senior photography director for an early online editorial fashion e-magazine called Fashionlines, from the late 1990s to the early 2000s.[13] His portfolio includes the Ocean Series, Mask Series, American Landscape, Vertigo Series, Cannery Row, American Facades, The Views, European Gallery, and Eritrea, Africa.[6] 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.[14][15]

In 2015, Boyer travelled to Eritrea, where he photographed the people, landscapes, and architecture including the Hamasien Hotel, Fiat Tagliero Building,[16] large hand-painted signs, street wall murals, Modernist architecture,[17] and handmade terraces. The work was published as a piece called "Inside Eritrea: from tank cemeteries to futuristic architecture-in pictures" by The Guardian.[18]

Boyer's work is included in the online collections of the Art Institute of Chicago,[19] the Brooklyn Museum,[20] the Corcoran Gallery of Art,[21] and the Monterey Museum of Art.[22]

Boyer is featured in the book California Elegance Portraits from the Final Frontier, by Christine Suppes and Frederic Aranda published by Mondadori, released in March 2021.[23]

Boyer lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, with his wife Kathleen.[1]

Select publications

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

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Winston Swift Boyer". www.winstonboyer.com. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Winston Smith Boyer Showing At Photography West Gallery". Carmel Pine Cone. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. December 9, 1982. pp. 35, 40. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Winston Philip Boyer". Casper Star-Tribune. Casper, Wyoming. February 13, 2000. p. 13. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Jonathan "Jock" Boyer". Bicycling. October 19, 2012. Retrieved December 13, 2023.
  5. ↑ "ESPN.com: OLY - Former cyclist Boyer pleads guilty to child molestation". a.espncdn.com. Retrieved December 13, 2023.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "Winston Smith Boyer photographs on exhibit". Carmel Pine Cone. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. December 28, 1978. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
  9. ↑ Rick Deragon (July 2, 1989). "Boyer's landscape pictures on view at Carmel gallery". Monterey Herald. Monterey, California. p. 4. Retrieved December 20, 2023.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ "Mrs. Adams offers a photographic tribute to her late husband Ansel". Carmel Pine Cone. Carmel-by-the-Sea, California. May 3, 1984. p. 9. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  12. ↑ Boyer, Winston Swift (1989). American Roads. Canada: Little, Brown and Company, Bullfinch Press. ISBN 9780821217085. Retrieved August 1, 2022.
  13. ↑ "Fashionlines.com The e-magazine for the elegant edge". Fashionlines. Stanford, California. August 3, 2022. Retrieved August 3, 2022.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ Ayla Hibri (August 20, 2015). "Fashion, flair and what to wear at Eritrea's largest metal market – in pictures". The Guardian. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  16. ↑ "Modernist architecture in Asmara, Eritrea". Africa Research Institute. September 30, 2015. Retrieved September 12, 2022.
  17. ↑ "Inside Eritrea: from tank cemeteries to futuristic architecture – in pictures". The Guardian. August 17, 2015. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  18. ↑ "Winston Boyer". Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved December 13, 2023.
  19. ↑ "Results for Winston Boyer". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved December 13, 2023.
  20. ↑ "American University". Corcoran Gallery of Art. Retrieved December 13, 2023.
  21. ↑ "Boyer, Winston Swift". Monterey Museum of Art. Retrieved December 13, 2023.
  22. ↑ California Elegance, Portraits From the Final Frontier. Rizzoli. February 23, 2021. ISBN 9788891829801. Retrieved July 31, 2022.
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