About The Photographer Geoff Winningham
Geoff Winningham, founding director of Other Americas, is best known for his seven books of photographs and three documentary films relating to American culture and ritual, including Friday Night in the Coliseum, Rites of Fall, and A Place of Dreams. Since 1979 he has traveled extensively in Mexico. He has guided small groups and taught photography in Mexico since 1980. In 1996 he completed an eleven-year study of the popular fiestas of Mexico with the publication of the book, In the Eye of the Sun. With the completion of this project, he has turned his attention primarily to photography of the landscape. He is head of the photography program in the Department of Visual Arts at Rice University, where he has taught since 1969. In addition, he is a frequent contributor to Texas Monthly, Travel and Leisure, and other major magazines. Through his undergraduate teaching at Rice, his workshops at Anderson Ranch Arts Center and the Oklahoma Arts Center, and his years of teaching through Other Americas, he is widely recognized as one of the finest photography instructors working today.
— From the web-site of Geoff Winningham
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