Meet the Books | “Bea Nettles: Myth Maker, Storyteller”
Bea Nettles, Observer Series, various objects, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, Photography Book Collection.
Bea Nettles, Mountain Dream Tarot: 78 Photographic Cards, offset printed tarot deck, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Manfred Heiting Book Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund.
Bea Nettles, Paris Rome & London, unique artist’s book, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund, Photography Book Collection.
May 2 & June 6, 2024
Learn more about the exhibition Bea Nettles: Myth Maker, Storyteller, on view in the Hirsch Library through August 17. Jon Evans, chief of libraries and archives, discusses Nettles’s extensive career as a photobook maker in which she focused on issues central to women, the merging image and text, and topics as diverse as autobiography, mythmaking, and the natural world.
Plan Your Visit
- Admission is free.
- This event takes place in the Hirsch Library Reading Room, located on the lower level of the Beck Building.
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