BILL WRIGHT

Children Playing Outside Migrant Worker's  Home

Bill Wright is a Texas photographer who has been featured in many one-man exhibitions and numerous group shows.  He has organized reciprocal photographic exhibitions between Texas photographers and photographers from Scotland, Peru, Czechoslovakia, and the former Soviet Union. Wright is currently a commissioner for the Texas Commission on the Arts. He is past Chairman of the Historic Photography Committee of the Texas Historical Foundation, and he organized Historic Texas and Contemporary Texas, two books of photographs published by The Texas Monthly Press, and The Union Guide to Texas Photographic Collections, published by the Texas A&M University Press. He has published many books including The Tigua: Pueblo Indians of Texas (Texas Western Press, 1993), winner of the Border Book Award, and The Kickapoo: Keepers of Tradition (Texas Western Press, 1996), Portraits from the Desert: Bill Wright’s Big Bend, (UT Press, 1998), People’s Lives: A Celebration of the Human Spirit, (UT Press, 2001) and The Last of the Last Frontier (Texas A&M Press, 2004). His photographs are collected  in public and private collections all over the world. He lives in Abilene, Texas. The Wittliff Gallery is proud to own twenty-one photographs to date.

SOURCE & PHOTO Bill Wright website, www.wrightworld.com