From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter
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Starting out: New York and other influences
From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter
Starting out: New York and other influences
Keith Carter: When I was 24 I felt like I had learned as much as I could learn from the people in the camera stores around here, and the books I was reading. I had read Ansel Adams' series three times and I still didn't understand half of that stuff, but I was trying to learn to print from books, and there wasn't much being shown, even in Huston in those days. Nothing in my area. So I wrote the Museum of Modern Art, and I told them I was a serious scholar of photography and could I come visit their collection, and somebody wrote me back. This is way before there was email. A kind intern said, "Well, sure, you come visit. Who do you want to see?" So I wrote back to them. Chris Orwig: Were you excited at opportunity? Keith: Oh! I was so excited. I got a letter from Museum of Modern Art, and they said I could come up. So I'd take the Greyhound bus to New York City, and it was a wonderful experience. I thought I had enough money to stay a month. I only made it a couple of weeks, but for…
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