After years in storage, Clyde Butcher's 'Living Waters' is on display in Clearwater

It's on display through July 27.

click to enlarge Clyde Butcher points to a telling detail in his photograph, "Ochopee," at the Tampa Bay History Center. - Nick Cardello
Nick Cardello
Clyde Butcher points to a telling detail in his photograph, "Ochopee," at the Tampa Bay History Center.
If Ansel Adams was a Florida Man, he’d be Clyde Butcher.

The former is America’s late foremost master of black and white landscape photography. Butcher is just as much of a national treasure who has dutifully presented Floridian landscapes with the scale and clarity they deserve.

“Living Waters” is a collection that’s been in storage and not shown in public in many years—but now on display at the Clearwater Historical Society.

In it, the now 81-year-old photographer showcases the state’s many springs, mangroves, meadows of seagrass and more, in the hopes that we all do more to protect it (Gaskin Bay, in Everglades National Park, is pictured).

A $5 donation is request if you visit "Living Waters: Aquatic Preserves of Florida," which is open Wednesday-Saturday, through July 27 at Clearwater Historical Society.
Event Details

Clyde Butcher: 'Living Waters: Aquatic Preserves of Florida'

Wednesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Continues through July 27

Clearwater Historical Society 610 S Fort Harrison, Clearwater Clearwater

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