Texas State Photographer Comes to HSU
Award-winning and Texas State Photographer Wyman Meinzer is the featured speaker for the second annual Guy Caldwell Western Heritage Lecture series on Friday, Feb. 23, 2007, at 8 p.m. in HSU’s Moody Center, Room 233. Meinzer's presentation is "Between Heaven and Texas," and is free and open to the public.
Meinzer’s interest in photography and photojournalism developed and expanded while he was involved in research at Texas Tech University, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in wildlife management in 1974.
An Image of West Texas
His editorial endeavors were first published in 1979, with photos appearing in National Wildlife and Texas Parks and Wildlife magazines. His work has since appeared on over 250 magazine covers, including more than 50 national and international covers. His photos have been seen in Smithsonian, Natural History, Time, Newsweek, Audubon, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Texas Highways, Sports Afield, Field and Stream, Outdoor Life, Korea GEO, German GEO, Das Tier, Airone, Horzu, BBC Wildlife, U.S. News & World Report, National Geographic, as well as many other publications.
Meinzer’s magazine assignments have taken him Mexico, Montana, Canada, Alaska, and Texas, and he was the official photographer for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s historic capture of the last remaining herd of southern Plains bison.
Proudly proclaimed Texas State Photographer in 1997 by the Texas State Legislature and then-Governor George Bush, Meinzer is renowned for his wildlife, landscape, architecture, and portrait photography. He and his wife, Sylinda, live in a restored 1887 jailhouse in Benjamin, Texas.
The Guy Caldwell Lecture series was made possible by an endowment established by Lee Caldwell, Clifton Caldwell, and Molly Cline in memory and honor of their father, local rancher Guy Caldwell. The purpose of the endowment is to preserve the western heritage of Hardin-Simmons University and the Abilene area.
For more information about the lecture, contact Dr. Tiffany Fink, 325.670.1512.
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