A Family of the Land: The Texas Photography of Guy Gillette (The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West)

by Andy Wilkinson

B. Byron Price (Foreword)

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Since he first dreamed of a career in photography, Guy Gillette has traveled regularly to his wife's family's ranch, located outside the small town of Crockett, Texas. When Gillette first came to the Porter Place, as the ranch has always been known, he began to photograph the Porter family and their land. Thanks to Gillette's sense of composition, these wonderful black-and-white photographs, dating from the 1940s, led to his career as a magazine photographer. Collected here for the first time, they document small-town life in East Texas, where Guy Gillette's sons, the musical duo the Gillette Brothers, still run...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780806144047
  • Publish Date 13 August 2013
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint University of Oklahoma Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 144
  • Language English