urn:taro:utexas.cah.00609 A Guide to the Alan Pogue Photographic Archive Text converted and initial EAD tagging done by Linda Peterson on December 12, 2007 Descriptive Summary Pogue, Alan Alan Pogue Photographic Archive 89-313; 2205-010; 2007-177; 2007-241 12 black and white gelatin silver prints, 3 postcards, 1 poster English Center for American History,The University of Texas at Austin Biographical Note

Alan Pogue was born in 1946 and grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas. He began his photographic career while serving in Vietnam in 1967. Since 1975 he has engaged in an ongoing project documenting the Texas Farm Workers Union. In addition, his socially concerned mission has led him to photograph in Texas prisons, in Cuba, in Iraq and Pakistan where he is documenting the condition of refugees and war victims, and in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is also a staff photographer for the Texas Observer in Austin. For many years Pogue was a student and friend of acclaimed documentary photographer Russell Lee, and this collection contains some of Pogue’s modern prints of Russell Lee negatives from the Center for American History’s Russell Lee Photograph Collection. Pogue’s many honors include a 1983 Texas Institute of Letters Dobie-Paisano fellowship, a CURE [Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants] Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002, and being named "Best Photographer" by the Austin [Texas] Chronicle, 1990-2005.

 Scope and Contents

Collection includes Death Row inmate Lawrence Pope testifying before the Texas Legislature in 1974, documentation of a conference of the Farm Security Administrations photographers at the Amarillo Arts Center in Amarillo, Texas, in 1979, postcards and a poster advertising shows of Pogue’s work, and modern prints by Pogue from vintage Russell Lee negatives.

 Access Restrictions

Unrestricted access

 Use Restrictions

Publication restrictions apply. Photographer retanis copyright.

 Preferred Citation

Alan Pogue Photographic Archive, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 3T242 3T242 Lawrence Pope testifying before the Texas Legislature in 1974 (printed in 1989) 3T242 Amarillo, Texas, Farm Security Administration symposium, 1979 (includes John Collier, Mary Collier, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, Arthur Rothstein, Sally Stein, Mimi Walters, Marion Post Wolcott) 3T242 Exhibit announcement postcards 2003-2004 3T242 Modern 11 x 14 in. prints of Russell Lee’s “Schoolgirl at desk, Corpus Christi, 1949” and “Cathedral and Town, Matera, 1960” 3S227 3S227 “America’s Migrant Farm Workers: a photographic survey by Alan Pogue” poster 3S227 Modern 16 x 20 in. prints of Russell Lee’s “Schoolgirl at desk, Corpus Christi, 1949”, “Shoeshine Boy, San Antonio, Texas, 1949”, and “Cathedral and Town, Matera, 1960”