Gus Foster

Gus Foster has been working with panoramic cameras since the 1970's.
When he moved to Taos, he began working with the mountain and wilderness
landscapes that were the prominent features of the terrain in the West.
He spent fifteen years climbing the high peaks of the American Rockies
in the seven Rocky Mountain states between Mexico and Canada. In the
late 90's, he began photographing the landscape of food production
across the lower forty-eight states. The other body of work of Foster
involves the passage of time, using a panoramic camera that makes a 360
degree revolution in less than a second, enabling him to capture short
stories of passing events which he calls "time photographs."

Born in Wisconsin in 1940, he received a B.A. in Art History from Yale
University. He was the Curator of Prints and Drawings at the
Minneapolis Institute of Arts from 1963 to 1972. He has been active in
the arts in Taos having served on the boards of the Taos Center of the
Arts and the Harwood Museum of Art. He was a recipient of the New
Mexico Governor's for Excellence in the Arts in 2021.

He has exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally
and his photographs are in the permanent collections of the National
Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, the Art Institute of Chicago,
the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles among many others.
There is a publication of his work, "Gus Foster: American Panoramas"
published by the Museum of New Mexico Press.