Willard Clay is recognized as one of our nations leading landscape photographers. He was chosen to contribute to the Daybreak 2000 Project and to The Nature of North America: Images by North America’s Premier Nature Photographers. He is the sole photographer of eleven books and a contributor to scores of books and such magazines as Time, Arizona Highways, Audubon, Readers Digest , Outdoor Photographer, and Sierra Club.
Before embarking on a photographic career a quarter of a century ago, Clay was a professor of botany at the University of Arizona for eleven years. He now teaches photography at the Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois. He also teaches annual photography workshops at the Great Smoky Mountains Institute, along with many other workshops and photo tours throughout the year.
Most of the images you will see on this website were taken with 4 x 5 large format view camera. Clay has just recently begun shooting digital and looks forward to adding many more images to his portfolio.
Clay identifies the most decisive influences on his artistic program and style as Eliot Porter, Henri Bresson and Johann Sebastion Bach.
BOOKS:
OREGON---Sammamish Press NORTHERN CALIFORNIA---Sammamish Press ILLINOIS-Images of the Landscape---Westcliffe Publishers TEXAS-Deep in the Heart---Thunder Bay Press Guide to West Virginia, Kentucky, & Tennessee---Smithsonian Guide to Illinois---Smithsonian GRAND TETON-Citadels of Stone---Tehabi Books YELLOWSTONE-Land of Fire & Ice---Tehabi Books TEXAS-Wild & Beautiful COLORADO-Preserving the Spirit & Beauty of Our Land---Voyageur Press ILLINOIS-Wild & Scenic---BrownTrout Publishers
A partial list of published credits includes:
Magazines: Arizona Highways, Audubon, Outdoor Photographer, Nature’s Best Magazine, The Amicus Journal, Backpacker, Cortlandt Group, Country, Modern Maturity, Natural History, Odyssey, Orion, Outside, Popular Photography, Sierra Club, Texas Highways, Trout Magazine, and The Wilderness Society.
Book Publishers: Amphoto Art, BrownTrout, Chronicle, Falcon Press, National Geographic, Oxford Press, Rand McNally, Reader’s Digest, Sammamish, Smithsonian, Thunder Bay, Tehabi Books, Turner Broadcasting, Voyageur Press, Westcliffe, and Woodall’s Directory.
Calendars: Argus Communications, Arizona Highways, Audubon, Barnes and Noble, Brown and Bigelow, Browntrout, Dream Garden, Eastman, Falcon Press, Golden Turtle Press, Green Peace, Hoyle, Impact, Landmark, Outdoor Photographer, Vernon, and Westcliffe.
Other: Various catalogs, greeting cards and post cards.
Currently leads photo tours for Lake Effect Photo Adventures. Contact information is Hank Erdmann at hankphoto@sbcglobal.net or 815-741-8273.
Photography classes are currently being taught at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, IL. Information at www.mortonarb.org
For more information contact: WILLARD CLAY PHOTOGRAPHY, INC. 2114 Caton Road Ottawa, Illinois 61350 (815) 433-1472 |
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