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Visual Studies presents Frederick Baldwin and Wendy Watriss

LOOKING AT THE U.S. 1957 – 1986
From the Civil Rights Movement to the Vietnam War,
and 16 years photographing in Texas

the co-founders of Fotofest, will present their new book and talk about 30 years of photographing, before they founded the largest international photography festival in the world in Houston.

October 27, 2009 
6:30pm Visual Presentation and Discussion
7:30pm Book Signing and Reception
at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Brown Auditorium Theater, 1001 Bissonnet

Introduction by Anne Wilkes Tucker , The Gus and Lyandall Wortham Curator of Photography, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

This is the first time since the founding of FotoFest in 1983, that Fred Baldwin and Wendy Watriss will present their own photography in Houston. This talk is based on a large exhibition of their work presented by the Musee de la Photographie in Charleroi, Belgium this year, January – May 2009 and the book published by Mets & Schilt Publishers in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Free and open to the public.

at the University of Houston is sponsoring this event with Photo Forum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, FotoFest and Houston Center for Photography

 

March 24th, 2010

Details will be announced soon.

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