Revealing Character: Robb Kendrick's Texas Tintypes
Starting in January 2004, photographer Robb Kendrick has been capturing images of the cowboys via the tintype, a 19 th-century photographic method. Frost Bank commissioned Kendrick’s tintype project and conceived a multi-city traveling exhibition of his work, which the Old Jail Art Center organized.
The exhibition will feature 66 tintypes of cowboys and cowgirls taken all over the Lone Star State plus 12 enlarged prints of tintype images. Curated by executive director Margaret Blagg, the exhibition has been touring museums across the state over the last two years.
To accompany the exhibition, Albany’s Bright Sky Press released an art book, Revealing Character: Texas Tintypes, featuring Kendrick’s tintypes as well as excerpts from the field notes he took when interviewing the cowboys he photographed; essays by Texas’s dean of letters John Graves, Frost Bank President Tom Frost, and curator Blagg; and an afterword by cowboy poet and essayist Buster McLaury.
For information, please visit the exhibition web site, Revealing Character.