Keith Carter
American
American, b. 1948
Keith Carter is an American photographer, educator, and artist noted for his dreamlike photos of people, animals and objects. At the age of three, Keith Carter's family moved to Beaumont, Texas where, soon after arriving, his father left and his mother worked as a professional photographer of children. Carter earning a degree in business administration from Lamar University in Beaumont. In 1970, Carter began working on personal photographs as well as commercial photography. A month long trip in 1973 to New York's Museum of Modern Art to study their permanent collection three days each week heightened an already intense interest in the art of photography. A chance meeting with playwright and National Medal of Arts winner Horton Foote, focused his observations on his native East Texas as an exotic land.
Keith Carter’s work explores time, place, and vernacular culture. Described as a “Poet of the Ordinary” by the Los Angeles Times, his photographs have been exhibited in over one hundred fifteen solo exhibitions in thirteen countries. Sixteen monographs of his work have been published, along with two documentary films: Keith Carter: The Artist Series, Ted Forbes and A Certain Alchemy, Anthropy Arts. A fifty-year retrospective book, Keith Carter/Fifty Years was published in fall 2018 by the University of Texas Press. In addition, he has contributed to nine other anthologies over the years, and has been the recipient of the Lange-Taylor Prize (1991) from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In 2009 he was awarded the Texas Medal of Arts. His work was featured on the nationally televised program CBS Sunday Morning in (1997), and is included in numerous private and public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the George Eastman House, and the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. He holds the Endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University in Texas where his awards include the University's highest teaching honors; the Regents’ Professor Award, University Professor Award, and Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Prize.
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American
American, b. 1948
Keith Carter is an American photographer, educator, and artist noted for his dreamlike photos of people, animals and objects. At the age of three, Keith Carter's family moved to Beaumont, Texas where, soon after arriving, his father left and his mother worked as a professional photographer of children. Carter earning a degree in business administration from Lamar University in Beaumont. In 1970, Carter began working on personal photographs as well as commercial photography. A month long trip in 1973 to New York's Museum of Modern Art to study their permanent collection three days each week heightened an already intense interest in the art of photography. A chance meeting with playwright and National Medal of Arts winner Horton Foote, focused his observations on his native East Texas as an exotic land.
Keith Carter’s work explores time, place, and vernacular culture. Described as a “Poet of the Ordinary” by the Los Angeles Times, his photographs have been exhibited in over one hundred fifteen solo exhibitions in thirteen countries. Sixteen monographs of his work have been published, along with two documentary films: Keith Carter: The Artist Series, Ted Forbes and A Certain Alchemy, Anthropy Arts. A fifty-year retrospective book, Keith Carter/Fifty Years was published in fall 2018 by the University of Texas Press. In addition, he has contributed to nine other anthologies over the years, and has been the recipient of the Lange-Taylor Prize (1991) from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. In 2009 he was awarded the Texas Medal of Arts. His work was featured on the nationally televised program CBS Sunday Morning in (1997), and is included in numerous private and public collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the George Eastman House, and the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University. He holds the Endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University in Texas where his awards include the University's highest teaching honors; the Regents’ Professor Award, University Professor Award, and Distinguished Faculty Lecturer Prize.
Source: keithcarter.org and wikipedia.org
Artist Objects
Caballos Blancos 1998.001
Artist Images