Keith Carter Info 2011

KEITH CARTER - FROM UNCERTAIN TO BLUE

November 19, 2011 - February 11, 2012 Artist Artist Reception & Book Signing Saturday, November 19, 2011 5-8pm

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" Keith Carter has the gift of taking things we have seen all our lives - a watermelon stand,

a black country church, a graveyard, a clothesline with chickens underneath,

a country store - and giving them another dimension, a beauty

that you can't easily be rid of." -Horton Foote, 1988

On November 19, 2011 PDNB Gallery will host and exhibition with an Artist Reception and Book Signing for internationally acclaimed photographer, Keith Carter, in conjunction with the re-release of his 1988 book, From Uncertain to Blue.

In 1986, Photographer Keith Carter (b. 1948) set out on a Texas road trip with his wife Patricia in celebration of their ten year wedding anniversary. Having been inspired by a chance meeting with playwright and National Medal of Arts winner, Horton Foote, Carter decided to focus his observations on his native East Texas as an exotic land. Once the couple was on the road, the rules were simple, one town, one photograph. Keith would take the photographs, while Patricia would reflect and write a few thoughts down.

The Carter's spent nearly a year on and off the road photographing small Texas towns with peculiar names such as Blessing, Earth, Happy, Hoard, Lovelady, Sweet Home and Welcome. The images they brought back would be the basis of Carter's first book, From Uncertain to Blue. The book became a photography landmark that has won both national and international acclaim. These photographs established Carter as one of America's most promising fine art photographers which has fueled a successful photographic career spanning over twenty-five years.

Now, a quarter of a century later, PDNB Gallery reviews Keith Carter's early career with his Uncertain to Blue photographic series. Images include a lonely battered baseball backstop sitting in a quiet field overgrown with weeds. The image is from Noonday, Texas.

In a photograph from Blessing, Texas, a bedroom in an older home is filled with a quilted bed that must have been a century old slumber refuge of a family member--now a Great Grand parent. The image triggers one's memory of the musty smell of an old home.

And in Lovelady, Texas there is a lively group of volunteers painting the small local church, perhaps the only church remaining in town.

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Keith Carter's book, From Uncertain to Blue, has been re-published, proving these images to be as powerful and meaningful today as they were years ago. The newest edition of From Uncertain to Blue features a new cover image, essays, contact sheets, a detailed travel journal and an essay that lends insight into Carter's creative process.

Currently, Keith Carter teaches photography at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, where he holds the Endowed Walles Chair of Visual and Performing Arts. Carter has also been awarded the University's highest teaching honors, the Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Award and University Professor Award.

Carter's photographs have been widely exhibited in Europe, The U.S., and Latin America. His photographs are also included in many great public and private collections; including The Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, George Eastman House, J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, The Dallas Museum of Art and many more.

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