Earlie Hudnall, Jr. Collection
1973 – 1994
About
3 square inches; photographic.
Collection Description
Earlie Hudnall, Jr., a photographer from Houston, Texas, was born November 8, 1946, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He grew up there and joined the Marine Corps during the Vietnam conflict. In the fall of 1968 he was discharged and entered Texas Southern University in Houston. Building upon an interest that developed in high school and in the Marines, Hudnall studied photography at Texas Southern under the tutelage of John Biggers and Rodney Evans.
Hudnall developed his skills in photography by working on student publications and doing work for Houston photographer Herbert Provost and graduated in 1972. During the 1980s and 1990s he taught photography at Texas Southern University. An oral history with Hudnall and examples of his work appear in Portraits of Community: African American Photography in Texas (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996).
The collection consists of prints made by Earlie Hudnall, Jr. between 1973 and 1994. Photographs include portraiture, cityscapes, and life in an African American community of Houston, Texas.
Arrangement: chronological.
Copyright and permissions: Copyright retained by photographer. Prints for research and study only. Written permission to reproduce required from photographer.
Source: Earlie Hudnall, Jr.
