Photograph of an old abandoned car on the side of a mountain road in Truchas, New Mexico. The photo includes a drop-off that reveals a valley and a distant mountain covered in trees.
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Photograph of an old abandoned car on the side of a mountain road in Truchas, New Mexico. The photo includes a drop-off that reveals a valley and a distant mountain covered in trees.
Physical Description
1 photograph : negative, b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Notes
Original Folder: "Old Car in Truchas May 22 1983 Sun Morning 9 am f64 @ 1/4 sec 16 1/2" Fujinon HC 110 NH"
Byrd Williams IV (1951- ) grew up in Fort Worth and comes from a family of photographers. He started taking photographs at a young age and worked with his father, Byrd Williams III, at the family photography business before attending graduate school at Southern Methodist University in the late 1980s. He taught classes as a professor at Collin College in Plano for over twenty years beginning in the early 1990s. His knowledge of photography reflects his family's history as well as his continuous pursuit of visual interests that document contemporary times. The book, Proof, which is about all four generations of the Williams family, was published by the University of North Texas Press in 2016. He most recently worked on the Walking Dead exhibition (2019-2021), which chronicles the people of Denton, Texas and the surrounding areas before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Preferred Citation:
Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection (AR0769), University of North Texas Special Collections
Collections
This photograph is part of the following collection of related materials.
Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection
Four generations of photographers, all named Byrd Williams, documented more than 100 years of North Texas history. These materials, selected from a larger collection of family items. are available in UNT Libraries' Special Collections.
Williams, Byrd M. (Byrd Moore), IV, 1951-.[Abandoned car on a mountain roadside overlooking a forest],
photograph,
May 22, 1983;
(https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1928590/:
accessed February 17, 2025),
University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.