From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter

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Starting a photographic journey

Starting a photographic journey

From the course: Narrative Portraiture: On Location in Texas with Keith Carter

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Starting a photographic journey

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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 that stuff, but I was trying to learn to print from books, and there wasn't much being shown even in Houston in those days. Nothing in my area. So I wrote The Museum of Modern Art, and I told them I was a serous scholar of photography, and could I come visit their collection? Chris Orwig: It's always interesting to hear about other people's photographic journey. How did they get to where they are today? And as Keith shared a little bit about his, I love the part about him selling everything and using all that money to travel to New York. What I love about that is that he said at one point, I learned as much as I could, and then he made that next step, or he took that next step. I think what's profound isn't that he went to New York, but it's that he…

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