GEOFF WINNINGHAM
Geoff Winningham was born in 1943 in Jackson, Tennessee. He graduated with a BA in English from Rice University in 1965. He earned his Master’s degree in 1968 in photography from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago where he studied with Aaron Siskind. Winningham, who has taught photography at Rice University since 1969, is best known for his black-and-white documentary work on Texas subjects—high school football, rodeos and livestock shows, and early wrestling. For over 20 years Winningham has offered photo workshops in Mexico and has photographed widely there. His monographs include Friday Night in the Coliseum (Allison Press, 1971) and recently featured in Luna córnea , Mexico’s best-known photo magazine; Going Texan: The Days of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo (1972); Rites of Fall: High School Football in Texas (UT Press, 1979); A Place of Dreams: Houston, An American City (Rice University, 1986); In the Eye of the Sun: Mexican Fiestas (Norton, 1997); and Along Forgotten River: Photographs of Buffalo Bayou and the Houston Ship Channel, 1997-2001 (Texas State Historical Society, 2003). The Wittliff Gallery owns over 300 photographs by Winningham, making it one of the largest collections of his work. Winningham lives and works in Houston and Mexico.
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