Keith Carter :: From Uncertain To Blue

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🗓️ 8 January 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:17.0	What's up everybody? Welcome back to the show. In this video I want to take a look at an early body of work from one of my favorite photographers Keith Carter and this is one of his first books. It's called from Uncertain to blue, which documents a series of trips that he made in the 1980s across Texas to some oddly named Texas towns. And I think this is a really important body of work to look at if you're into Keith Carter,
0:21.0	and one being that he's from Texas and two being that this is a far cry
0:26.5	from the where his style is evolved to today and what you see in his work today is an amalgamation of a lot of things but I think that's one of the
0:33.3	things that impresses me the most about Keith Carter is that he is one of those
0:36.8	photographers who continues to improve and evolve over the years he doesn't stick
0:40.9	with one particular thing or aesthetic or style and just work that out.
0:45.6	He lets every body of work influence the next.
0:47.8	This is a particularly early set of images from him.
0:50.9	And what I find interesting about this is you start to see some of the traits that
0:54.6	ended up later affecting his work, I think, in a big way.
0:57.4	So probably the best thing we should do right now is go look at some images.
1:00.5	So we're looking at from uncertain to blue, which as I mentioned earlier is one of
1:03.9	Keith's earliest monographs, and the title of the book comes from the state of
1:08.0	Texas. And as Keith very poetically states in the intro here Texas is king-sized and majestic and as
1:15.2	somebody from Texas I really think there's a lot of beauty in that statement
1:18.8	Texas is vast it is huge you can drive an entire day and never leave the state and it's very mystic as well and one of the things that is particularly interesting if you've ever looked at a map of Texas
1:30.5	Or is Texas is populated by all these little tiny towns with really funny names.
1:35.6	So the title of the book, From Uncertain to Blue, those are two of the Texas towns that are
1:39.2	represented in this book, uncertain Texas and Blue Texas. There's also Ponder.
1:43.4	There's art, there's poetry.
1:45.1	They have very quirky names, and most of these towns,
1:48.0	it's like you can blow through them
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