Texas Photography

Texas Photographers Featured at PDNB

Photography by Texans Keith Carter and Earlie Hudnall, Jr., is currently featured at PDNB (Photographs Do Not Bend) Gallery in Dallas through February 11. Carter’s solo exhibit features photographs from his new book Ghostlight, a collection of recent stunning photographic journeys into the Big Thicket National Preserve in Southeast Texas.

He describes the Big Thicket as a “biological wonderland,” with “over 113,000 acres of dense tangled forests, angry water moccasins, and amber waterways.” Ghostlight is published by the University of Texas Press. Carter’s photographs of Texas span 50 years and reveal intimate views of nature. His most popular books include From Uncertain to Blue (1988), The Blue Man (1990), Mojo (1992), and Bones (1996). Carter was born in Madison, Wisconsin, but has photographed around the world. Ghostlight features images of his adopted Texas homeland. Several museums own Carter’s original works, including the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, the Dallas Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. The solo exhibit of Hudnall’s works celebrates his recent Lifetime Achievement award from the Art League of Houston recognizing Hudnall’s documentation of life in Houston’s Third and Fourth Wards, which began in the 1970s when he studied art under muralist John Biggers and Thomas Freeman at Texas Southern University. Hudnall has also photographed communities in Africa, England, Haiti, and his hometown of Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Many institutions have collected his photographs including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Menil Collection, the Amon Carter Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. For information call (214) 969-1852 or visit www.pdnbgallery.com.

“Wheels, Third Ward,” 1993, by Earlie Hudnall (top left); “Atchafalaya, Study 1,” 2021, by Keith Carter (bottom).