The Byrd Williams Collection at the University of North Texas contains more than 10;000 prints and 300;000 negatives; accumulated by four generations of Texas photographers; all named Byrd Moore Williams. Beginning in the 1880s in Gainesville; the four Byrds photographed customers in their studios; urban landscapes; crime scenes; Pancho Villarsquo;s soldiers; televangelists; and whatever aroused their unpredictable and wide-ranging curiosity. When Byrd IV sat down to choose a selection from this dizzying array; he came face to face with the nature of mortality and memory; his own and his familyrsquo;s. In some cases these photos are the only evidence remaining that someone lived and breathed on this earth. The 193 photos selected here are organized into thematic sections such as ldquo;Landscapes;rdquo; ldquo;Violence and Religion;rdquo; and ldquo;Darkness.rdquo; They are significant not just for the range of subjects; but for the inclusion of a variety of examples of the evolving photographic technology from the 1880s to the present. This book is an unprecedented portrait of both photographic history and the history of Texas; as well as a record of one unique family. Roy Flukingerrsquo;s Foreword places the photographs in a historical context; and Anne Wilkes Tuckerrsquo;s Afterword discusses the ethics of memory and preservation.
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