Documentary Photography, 1978-1984
I love classic, Depression-era documentary photography. My first solo exhibit, "Working", hung at the Texas AFL-CIO headquarters in 1980.
My second show, at the Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, was part of a larger project which brought Flaco Jimenez and his father Don Santiago Jimenez to play at the museum's new performance hall. We spent months shooting and interviewing Conjunto musicians in South Texas and the Mexico border area.
Three Generations of Acordeonistas, San Antonio, Texas, 1978. Flaco, Don Santiago, and David Jimenez. The image is featured in Michael Corcoran's new book, "All Over the Map—True Heroes of Texas Music" and was among four B&W images recent acquired by The Wittliff Collection at Texas State University, San Marcos.
Proud to have this 1980 Texas Farmworkers Union photo in the Bullock Texas History Museum exhibit, “This Light of Ours, Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement”.