Keith Carter (American, b.1948) is a photographer whose Southern cultural upbringing resonates in his ethereal images. Having no formal art education, Carter studied business administration at Lamar University in Beaumont, TX, before turning his passion for photography into a career. Since the late 1980s, his photographs of people, animals, objects, and landscapes have been published in over 10 acclaimed monographs. Carter’s masterful photography has earned him the Texas Medal of Arts and the Lange-Turner Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, as well as holding positions as a distinguished faculty lecturer, and the Walles Chair of Art at his alma mater, Lamar University. Carter is nationally represented by prominent galleries throughout the United States, and his work can also be found in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among other notable institutions.
