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Upcoming at the Museum of the Big Bend
The Upshaws of County Line:
An American Family
January 18-March 25, 2019
In 1988 photographer Richard Orton began what would become
a 25 year project documenting life in the African American
community of County Line in deep East Texas. Known as a “freedom
colony,” County Line came into being when, in the 1880s the
Upshaw brothers, Guss, Felix and Jim, brought their families there
to create a community of their own.
Burton Pritzker:
Forgotten Planes
June 14-September 1, 2019
“At the core of my photography lies
the belief that ‘Everything is also
something else.’ When I look at
anything through a camera, I sense
another world, another reality beyond
what I see. If the photograph I take is
successful, that 'other world' comes
into being almost by magic, a kind of
alchemy.”