Earlie Hudnall's work has been described as "arguably the most accurate chronicler of black life over the last twenty years." His photos from African American communities in Texas, Mississippi, and Georgia tell stories of the universal in the day to day. His work is in numerous collections including the National Museum of American Art and the Smithsonian Institute.

Hudnall credits his father, an amateur Sunday photographer, and his grandmother, the keeper of the family scrapbook, for his interest in photography. "Her album of pictures and clippings provided details of how life used to be. I began to understand the importance of keeping a visual record of the family, the community, and our surroundings," he says. Much of his work has been done in Houston, some reflecting the contrast between the exuberance of inner-city neighborhood life with the sleek, steel-and-glass downtown office towers that are bearing down on it.


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Earlie Hudnall, Jr. is represented by John Cleary Gallery in Houston, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery in Dallas, and LewAllen Contemporary Gallery in Santa Fe. If you contact any of these galleries regarding Hudnall's work, please inform them that you were referred by ArtView.