// PDNB GALLERY

PDNB GALLERY // NOV 19 // 5-8PM

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PDNB Gallery
1202 Dragon St., Ste. 103
Dallas, TX 75207
214.969.1852
www.pdnbgallery.com

K E I T H C A R T E R
FROM UNCERTAIN TO BLUE
November 19, 2011 - February 11, 2012

" Keith Carter has the gift of taking things we have seen all our lives - a watermelon stand, a
black country church, a graveyard, a clothesline with chickens underneath, a country store -
and giving them another dimension, a beauty that you can't easily be rid of." -Horton Foote,
1988

On November 19, 2011 PDNB Gallery will host and exhibition with an Artist Reception and
Book Signing for internationally acclaimed photographer, Keith Carter, in conjunction with
the re-release of his 1988 book, From Uncertain to Blue.

In 1986, Photographer Keith Carter (b. 1948) set out on a Texas road trip with his wife Patricia
in celebration of their ten-year wedding anniversary. Having been inspired by a chance
meeting with playwright and National Medal of Arts winner, Horton Foote, Carter decided to
focus his observations on his native East Texas as an exotic land. Once the couple was on
the road, the rules were simple, one town, one photograph. Keith would take the photographs,
while Patricia would reflect and write a few thoughts down.

The Carter's spent nearly a year on and off the road photographing small Texas towns with
peculiar names such as Blessing, Earth, Happy, Hoard, Lovelady, Sweet Home and Welcome.
The images they brought back would be the basis of Carter's first book, From Uncertain to
Blue. The book became a photography landmark that has won both national and
international acclaim. These photographs established Carter as one of America's most
promising fine art photographers which has fueled a successful photographic career
spanning over twenty-five years.

Now, a quarter of a century later, PDNB Gallery reviews Keith Carter's early career with his
Uncertain to Blue pThe Dialogue, 2003 hotographic series. Images include a lonely battered
baseball backstop sitting in a quiet field overgrown with weeds. The image is from
Noonday, Texas.

In a photograph from Blessing, Texas, a bedroom in an older home is filled with a quilted
bed that must have been a century old slumber refuge of a family member--now a Great
Grand parent. The image triggers one's memory of the musty smell of an old home.

And in Lovelady, Texas there is a lively group of volunteers painting the small local church,
perhaps the only church remaining in town.

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