Research Catalog

Title

A family of the land : the Texas photography of Guy Gillette / by Andy Wilkinson ; foreword by B. Byron Price.

Author

Wilkinson, Andy.

Publication

Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press, [2013]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Gillette, Guy

Description

ix, 131 pages : illustrations; 24 x 28 cm

Summary

"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. When Gillette first came to the Porter Place, as the ranch has always been known, he began to photograph the Porter family and their land. 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. A Family of the Land offers a portrait of a community over a half century during which remarkably little has changed"--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West ; v. 13

Uniform Title

Charles M. Russell Center series on art and photography of the American West ; v. 13.

Alternative Title

Texas photography of Guy Gillette

Subject

• Gillette, Guy > Family > Pictorial works
• Porter family > Pictorial works
• Gillette, Guy
• Porter family
• Gillette, Guy
• 1900-1999
• Community life > Crockett > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
• Ranch life > Crockett > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
• Ranchers > Crockett > Pictorial works
• Ranch life > Crockett > History > 20th Century > Pictorial works
• Community life
• Families
• Manners and customs
• Ranch life
• Ranchers
• Crockett (Tex.) > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
• Crockett Region (Tex.) > History, Local > Pictorial works
• Crockett (Tex.) > Social life and customs > 20th century > Pictorial works
• Crockett (Tex.) > Pictorial works
• Texas > Crockett

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• Biographies
• History
• Illustrated works
• Local history
• Pictorial works
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Lovelady, Texas, 1950s -- Saturday in Crockett -- Hoyt and Claude -- PCA Meeting -- Sale Barn -- Branding, 1951 -- Wounded Cow-Dog -- With Dayton -- Working the Pens -- Dominos at the Garage -- Church Work -- Antioch Homecoming, July 1955 -- Bible School -- Crossing -- Breakfast on the Range, 1957 -- Working Cattle, 1957-1961 -- Water Hole -- Working Cattle, 1980s-1990s -- Next Generation -- Eyes for the Blind -- What Still Remains : An Afterword -- About the Photographs : An Appendix.

ISBN

• 9780806144047
• 0806144041

LCCN

2013009229

OCLC

• 832706135
• SCSB-12297480

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library