I just received word that the Texas Tech University Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library has accepted my photo archives. Although you can't tell from my quickie woodworking photos at one time I was a working photographic artist. For years I've worried about what to do with my photographic work. Because I was a photographic diarist I felt it was important that the work be preserved for future historians but I knew once dead the archives were on a short ride to the dump. Whatever for the next month or so I will be going through all my stored photographs, culling the crap and boxing up the keepers.
Nostalgia time, as Mr. Bunker would say; Those were the days.
My thanks to Jean Caslin who made it happen.
ken
Will they be available to view on line?
ReplyDeleteRalph,
DeleteOnce cataloged they should be searchable on line. That may take awhile.
ken
Wow awesome. Looking forward to see them on line some time down the road.
ReplyDeleteCongrats, I know you must feel relieved
Bob, Jean and Rudy
Bob,
DeleteYeah, it takes a big load off my mind. After I got home from work last night (0130 MST), with whisky glass in hand, I kinda started working on getting everything together. Mostly looking at the books and for some of my "Artist Statements". I was a better photographer than I am a woodworker. But then that's a low bar.
ken
Well, that's pretty danged cool. What type of things did you photograph? Awesome southwest nature scenes? Or more historical things like local political poeple?
ReplyDeleteMatt,
ReplyDeleteThanks, I'm pretty happy about all the work finding a home.
I called myself a diarist. I used my camera to record my life and the people around me. Kinda like a street photographer but more personal.
As I go through my files I may post a few of the photos and if I want to really bore everyone a copy of one of my Artist Statements :-).
ken