Architecture nominee

BAYOU CITY


In 1986 I returned to Houston, where I lived as a small child, to recapture my early impressions of that time and place. I wanted to recreate the Houston of my past by photographing buildings and neighborhoods from the late 1950s. The older cityscapes in Bayou City, many of which are being destroyed to pave the way for new developments, evoke a timely and timeless chapter of American cities.

The project took several weeks to photograph and over a year to print. I used an 8 x 10 Deardorff camera with Gold Dot lenses and printed the images in palladium. The Bayou City series consists of forty-seven images on 11 X 14 Strathmore 500 medium-surface 1-ply paper.

After Bennett College in 1969, and following further studies in film at the New York University School of the Arts in 1971, I refocused my career on fine art photography, specializing in the art of platinum printing. Over the years I have had twelve solo exhibitions at sites around the United States. My work has been included in forty-nine group exhibitions internationally.

My work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, among others. It is also in numerous private and corporate collections, including the Elton John Collection and the Polaroid Collection.

My photography has been published in The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were by Michael Ochs and Craig Butler (2003) and Flora Photographica: Masterpieces of Flower Photography from 1835 to the Present by William A. Ewing (1991).

In 2011, International Photography Awards awarded my project Suburban Knights: A Return to the Middle Ages first place in the category Fine Art, Portrait. The project was published in book form by powerHouse Books in 2010.