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Proof: photographs from four generations of a Texas family

Byrd M. Williams IV; foreword by Roy Flukinger; afterword by Anne Wilkes Tucker
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, [2016]

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Summary:
"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"--Amazon.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword : One bright thread / Roy Flukinger
  • Photographs : The family album
  • Landscape
  • Postcard
  • The Great Depression
  • Studio
  • People
  • Non-people
  • Violence and religion in Texas
  • Night
  • Afterword : Palimpsest / Anne Wilkes Tucker.
Author/Creator:
University of North Texas > Libraries
Contributors:
Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951- , author, photographer, curator
Flukinger, Roy, 1947- , writer of foreword
Tucker, Anne , writer of afterword
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Proof: photographs from four generations of a Texas family [University of North Texas, Libraries]
Subjects:
Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951- — Photograph collections
Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951- — Family
Photographers — Texas
Photography, Artistic — Private collections — Texas
Photograph collections — Texas
Texas — Pictorial works
Texas — Social life and customs — Pictorial works
Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-
Photograph collections
Families
Photographers
Photography, Artistic — Private collections
Photography, Artistic
Manners and customs
Texas
Genres:
Pictorial works
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Physical Description:
213 pages ; 24 cm
Call Numbers:
TR650 .U55 2016
ISBNs:
9781574416565 (hardcover, alkaline paper)
1574416561 (hardcover, alkaline paper)
9781574416640 (electronic book) [Invalid]
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
2016025861
OCLC Numbers:
951227321