A Family of the Land The Texas Photography of Guy Gillette |
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Author:
| Wilkinson, Andy |
Foreword by:
| Price, B. Byron |
Series title: | The Charles M. Russell Center Series on Art and Photography of the American West Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8061-4404-7 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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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. 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...
More DescriptionSince 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. 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 cattle.