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Noting a crisis, many community, church, and political leaders called for black men to take a more active role in raising their children. The viewer can accept the image as one’s own and respond emotionally and aesthetically to the captured image."
Bio courtesy of www.cpw.org. Although the man looks off into the distance, his large sunglasses mirroring a cityscape, he nonetheless assumes his role as "guardian." He has tucked the girl inside his big, plush coat, and linked his hands together in front, embracing her securely.
Together the two form a large triangle that fills the foreground. Most notably, James Laxton, the cinematographer for Moonlight, which won an Oscar for Best Picture in 2017, cited Hudnall’s work as inspiration for depicting Black people in the film.
Hudnall’s work is represented in numerous permanent collections including the Amon Carter Museum, Ft.
Worth, TX; Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The Menil Collection, Houston, TX; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany; and Studio Museum of Harlem, NY. He is the recipient of several awards, including the 2020 Visual Artist Award by the Texas Commission on the Arts, and was honored by FotoFest in 2019.
“It was important to shed light on what causes a person to move, strive and become so inventive in his or her own way of survival,” Hudnall said.
Hudnall began to take his photography practice more seriously during his tour of duty as a U.S. Marine in Vietnam from 1966-67. The photographer took the picture at the girl's eye level, and we are immediately drawn to her smiling face, framed by her white coat, hood, and scarf.
For example, in 1990, the year of Hudnall's photograph, about 2.3 million black men and boys were incarcerated while about twenty-three thousand graduated from college (a ratio of 99:1, compared with the 6:1 ratio for whites). A unique commonality exists between young and old because there is always continuity between the past and the future.
Impressed by Hudnall's artistry and photographic style, Dr. Freeman commissioned him to continue documenting the families, individuals, elders, and children in neighborhoods. Alarming statistics seemed to back this characterization. By foregrounding the relationship between the beaming young girl and her father rather than focusing exclusively on the man as a representation of his race, the father becomes a multidimensional figure.
A catalog published by ALH and designed by HvA Design will be available in conjunction with this exhibition. The assignment had a lasting impact on Hudnall as an artist, as he continued to photograph these same communities throughout his career, and has produced some of his strongest work from these historic areas of Houston. In 2021, the City of Houston, led by Mayor Sylvester Turner, designated June 12, 2021, as Earlie Hudnall Day.
His work has been featured in numerous publications including Luncheon Magazine No.
11: “On Photography: Earlie Hudnall, Jr. and Rahim Fortune in Conversation by Reginald Moore” (2021); Time Magazine: “'I'm Just Trying to Photograph Life as I See It.' Earlie Hudnall Jr. Has Spent More Than 40 Years Documenting Historically Black Neighborhoods in Houston” (2020) and “Photographic Memory: The Importance of Preserving Community History” (2017).
Hudnall lives and works in Houston, TX, and continues to photograph life in the community and around the city, printing his photographs in a darkroom behind his house in Third Ward.
ADDITIONAL WORKS ON VIEW
We invite you to visit, either in-person or through their websites, PDNB Gallery for Earlie Hudnall, Jr., a solo exhibition coinciding with Art League Houston’s recognition given to Earlie Hudnall for their biennial Lifetime Achievement Award in the Visual Arts.
From then on, Hudnall began to understand, at an early age, the importance of documenting his community and the significance of who one is and how one lives. While studying art, he met one of his most significant mentors, John Biggers, the painter and muralist that depicted African American life in the South. Behind the man's head is a small American flag, the kind waved by the hundreds during parades on the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving.
During his studies at TSU, he had the opportunity to study with Dr. John Biggers, the notable painter, muralist, and art educator, who founded and developed the art department at TSU along with Carroll Harris Simms. While studying, he and fellow photographer, Ray Carrington III were recruited by Dr. Thomas Freedman, the notable orator and Director of the TSU Debate Team, to document the university's Model Cities Program, which provided a chance for the artist to photograph various Houston neighborhoods (Trinity Gardens, Sunnyside, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Wards).
His images are in many fine collections – The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; The National Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Hudnall is the university photographer for Texas Southern University and is on the executive boards of the Houston Center for Photography and the Texas Photographic Society.
"I chose the camera as a tool to document different aspects of life: who we are, what we do, how we live, what our communities look like.
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