{"id":7898,"date":"2018-04-16T14:36:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=7898"},"modified":"2018-04-16T15:01:13","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T15:01:13","slug":"edwin-way-teales-photographs-of-american-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2018\/04\/16\/edwin-way-teales-photographs-of-american-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin Way Teale’s Photographs of American Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photographs of nature may be many things. Some may be primarily artistic; some may be primarily scientific. In their simplest, most matter-of-fact forms, they are merely \u201ccatalogue\u201d pictures of objects or creatures. The best nature photography, however, records both the object and the setting. It arrests,\u00a0in its normal surroundings, some form of life, portraying it in a characteristic moment of its existence. Such pictures possess emotional as well as intellectual impact [and] carry us on an adventure of discovery. \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– Edwin Way Teale, Photographs of American Nature (NY: Dodd, Mead, 1972)<\/p>\n

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During his sixty-year career as an author and naturalist that began around 1930 with regular submissions to Popular Science<\/em> magazine, Edwin Way Teale produced over fifty thousand pictures documenting his travels, nature observations, and personal discoveries. A self-taught (and self-financed) photographer, Teale worked with the utmost economy — careful in framing his shots, utilizing consumer-grade cameras and equipment, writing letters seeking advice from other photographers, and processing prints in his household dark room. By 1966, when Teale was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, and nearly a million copies of Teale\u2019s\u00a0books had been sold, the artistic value of his photographs was recognized throughout the world.<\/p>\n

For his book Photographs of American Nature<\/em>, published when the Connecticut-based author was 73 years of age, Teale hoped to showcase the \u201cstrange and beautiful\u201d creatures he had encountered in his lifetime. Teale selected two hundred and eighty-nine pictures from his archive of photographs to be included in the book. Half of those pictures selected appeared in print for the first time.\u00a0As Teale\u2019s choice of images for Photographs of American Nature<\/em> reveal, depicting the beauty and fragility of the natural world is simple and \u201cmatter-of-fact.\u201d Ultimately, the best nature photographs are ordinary and spontaneous, a consequence of our human instincts not only to observe the world around us, but to recognize and to bear witness.<\/p>\n

The exhibition \u201cEdwin Way Teale\u2019s Photographs of American Nature<\/em>\u201d explores Teale\u2019s skill and creativity as a photographer and the role of photography in his writing and storytelling. The exhibition features Teale\u2019s photographs and cameras alongside a selection of notebooks, manuscripts, letters, and drafts from the Edwin Way Teale Papers preserved in UConn\u2019s Archives & Special Collections. A highlight of the exhibition is a collection of original photographic prints on loan from the Connecticut Audubon Society Trail Wood Sanctuary, the former home of Edwin Way Teale located in Hampton, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

Edwin Way Teale’s Photographs of American Nature<\/em><\/strong>
\n On view: February 12 through May 4, 2018<\/strong>
\n Thomas J. Dodd Research Center Gallery<\/strong>
\n University of Connecticut <\/strong><\/p>\n

Exhibition is free and open to the public Monday through Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm
\nPresented by: Archives & Special Collections, UConn Library<\/p>\n

Contact: Melissa Watterworth Batt, Curator<\/p>\n

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Photographs of nature may be many things. Some may be primarily artistic; some may be primarily scientific. In their simplest, most matter-of-fact forms, they are merely \u201ccatalogue\u201d pictures of objects or creatures. The best nature photography, however, records both the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,253,9],"tags":[432,333,311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7898"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7907,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7898\/revisions\/7907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}