Joel Salcido recently donated several of his photographs from his 2002 Roma, Texas series, Entre Fantasmas. Roma is a small town on the Texas-Mexico border and was the location of the filming of the 1951 Viva Zapata movie, which starred …
The Wittliff acquires Tejano Music collection of Ramón Hernández
San Marcos, TX – As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University have acquired one of the largest known collections of Tejano Music materials and memorabilia in existence from renowned musicologist and collector RamĂłn Hernández. …
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“It’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll” now digitized
Forty-one issues of the indie music newspaper It’s Only Rock ’N’ Roll have been digitally preserved by The Wittlliff Collections at Texas State University. You can view the inventory here. Published in San Antonio by music journalist Ron Young, the …
Celebrating 25 Years of The Austin Film Festival
Are you ready to celebrate Austin Film Festival’s silver anniversary? We at The Wittliff are looking forward to yet another festival full of fun, interesting, and inspiring film screenings and discussion panels. In fact, the Wittliff, in collaboration with AFF …
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Welcome to The Keystone
First things first. Thank you for taking the time to check out The Wittliff Collections’ new blog, “The Keystone.” For most of you the word will be familiar—the Keystone was the semi-annual newsletter you received in the mail for many …
The unvarnished outlaw country collection of Sam Kindrick
It’s been nearly 50 years since the birth of the outlaw country music scene in Texas. At the beginning of the 1970s, it was known as progressive country, redneck rock and cosmic cowboy music. Its earliest proponents were Michael Martin Murphey, …
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Keith Carter: Fifty Years
We are honored to feature Keith Carter’s retrospective exhibition, which opened at The Wittliff on August 27. With over 140 photographs on view, the exhibit features work from every phase of his career. Like the powerful photograph of a Mexican …
