Photography in Houston: Introduction and Conversations

An impressive survey of the history and current state of
(art-)photography in Houston, Texas. Interviews with Anne Wilkes
Tucker (since 1974 connected with the Museum of Fine Arts in
Houston, and driving lady behind much photography-related
activity in Houston, including initiating the Houston Center for
Photography); with Geoff Winningham (active in Houston since
1968, manager of the Latent Image Gallery from 1970 till 1971,
former student of Siskind and Callahan at the Chicago Institute
of Design and friend of Gary Winogrand); with George Krause, Ed
Hill and Suzanne Bloom (responsible for the photography program
of the Art Department of the University of Houston); with the
photographers-duo Manual (Ed Hill and Suzanne Bloom - on the
cultural situation of Houston and their post-structuralist work
with computer-based imaging); with one of the elder and more
influentual artists of Houston, Charles Schorre (art director,
illustrator, photographer and educator); on the origin and
current situation of the Houston Center for Photography
(interview with executive director Jean Caslin). Also
interviewed are Dave Crossley (who mildly critisises the
developments at the Houston Center for Photography), Fred
Baldwin (driving person behind the Houston FotoFest), Wendy
Watriss (on her critical, concerned and social photography
projects). Portfolios of several of the mentioned photographers
are included, as is a series of photographs by Charles Schorre
from his ""Artists Handbook''.