photographic thursday :: keith carter

Keith Carter
An internationally recognized photographer and educator.  Born in Madison, Wisconsin in 1948,he holds the endowed Walles Chair of Art at Lamar University Beaumont, Texas.  He is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Regional Survey Grants and the Lange Taylor Prize from The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.  In 1997 Keith Carter was the subject of an arts profile on the national network television show, CBS Sunday Morning.  In 1998, he received Lamar University's highest teaching honor, the University Professor Award, and he was named the Lamar University Distinguished Lecturer.
from an essay by Bill Wittliff
"Among his earliest memories is waking in the middle of the night from a pallet on the floor to see a small orange safelight above the kitchen sink where his mother stands. He steps over beside her then raises himself on tiptoes to watch in wide eyed wonder as one of her photographic images slowly comes up in the developer. It is magic, indeed it is a miracle and to this day my friend Keith Carter has never gotten over it."