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Photographs from Four Generations of a Texas Family
Byrd M. Williams IV(Author)
University of North Texas Press,U.S.
Will be published approx. on 30. December 2016
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-1-57441-656-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Byrd Williams Collection at the University of North Texas contains more than 10,000 prints and 300,000 negatives, accumulated by four generations of Texas photographers, all named Byrd Moore Williams. Beginning in the 1880s in Gainesville, the four Byrds photographed customers in their studios, urban landscapes, crime scenes, Pancho Villa's soldiers, televangelists, and whatever aroused their unpredictable and wide-ranging curiosity. When Byrd IV sat down to choose a selection from this dizzying array, he came face to face with the nature of mortality and memory, his own and his family's. In some cases these photos are the only evidence remaining that someone lived and breathed on this earth.
The 193 photos selected here are organized into thematic sections such as "Landscapes," "Violence and Religion," and "Darkness." They are significant not just for the range of subjects, but for the inclusion of a variety of examples of the evolving photographic technology from the 1880s to the present. This book is an unprecedented portrait of both photographic history and the history of Texas, as well as a record of one unique family.
The 193 photos selected here are organized into thematic sections such as "Landscapes," "Violence and Religion," and "Darkness." They are significant not just for the range of subjects, but for the inclusion of a variety of examples of the evolving photographic technology from the 1880s to the present. This book is an unprecedented portrait of both photographic history and the history of Texas, as well as a record of one unique family.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Denton
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
38 colour, 155 black & white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 236 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
1021 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57441-656-5 (9781574416565)
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Persons
Byrd M. Williams IV maintains a studio in Dallas and teaches photography at Collin County Community College. He provided the photographs for Fort Worth's Legendary Landmarks and his work is in the collections of the Amon Carter Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.