Fierce, Fierce Beauty
The title for Keith Carter's exhibition at the Austin Museum of Art, "A Poet of the Ordinary" describes the photographer to a tee, a man who takes subjects from the everyday world and takes pictures of them that tell their story with the distilled purity of expression that characterizes great poetry.
"...capacity, some 230 people squeezed into corners, doorways, aisles, and crouched at the speaker's feet, to hear what photographer..."
