Lynn Butler

Lynn H. Butler has had more than forty-five solo exhibitions, including several one-person shows at the Leica Gallery. Her work has appeared in more than 100 group exhibitions around the world. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn; the International Center for Photography, New York City; The Norton Museum, West Palm Beach; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne; the...See more

Lynn H. Butler has had more than forty-five solo exhibitions, including several one-person shows at the Leica Gallery. Her work has appeared in more than 100 group exhibitions around the world. Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn; the International Center for Photography, New York City; The Norton Museum, West Palm Beach; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; the Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne; the University of Texas, Austin; the Portland Museum of Art, Portland; and the New-York Historical Society Museum, New York City; among others. Butler's work has appeared in such publications as Life, Geo, Aperture, and the New York Times. Her books include A Passage Through the Land of Sleepy Hollow (1988), Coney Island. Kaleidoscope (1991), Toxic Circles (1993), Imperiled Landscapes, Endangered Legends (1977), and A Plant Once Uprooted (2002). Her photographs were included in The Meaning of Life, Time Life 1993 and in Our Town, Aperture 1993. She was nominated by Newsweek as the best art photographer for the ICP Infinity Award, and her grants include one from the Zimmerli Museum of Art for printmaking and another from the Brodsky Innovative Print Center to produce a museum addition. She showed her work and taught at places including the Palm Beach Photo Museum, The Maine Photographic Workshops, and The Boca Museum of Art School. Lynn H. Butler works with slow shutter speeds and various camera movements to document endangered landscapes, animals, and cultures. Many of her landscapes are taken from the backs of moving horses. Living connections between horse and nature open up for me when I ride into a spiritualized environment, she says. She also photographs while diving the ocean. In many parts of the world, she documents the dying coral reefs and other endangered creatures. Her work is essentially about time and place, textures, colors and ambiguous forms, landscapes and her feelings concerning them. Butler says, I have had the honor of riding the horses of many tribes while I photographed the endangered landscapes and sacred sites. A native New Yorker, Lynn H. Butler today resides in Thompson Ridge, New York. See less