laura and bob sightings

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Well, this really isn't a siting as much as it is a mention, but Bob Wilson's name appears in the Dallas News website and I guess maybe in the paper, too?

www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-lehrer_1115gd.ART.State.Edition1.4b4771e.html

I miss Jim Lehrer but I still think the PBS NewsHour is by far the best news program on TV. Bob Wilson must be a pretty sharp guy. Jim Lehrer AND Monty Python? Brilliant!

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If you believe the internet, Owen is in Dallas. He was supposedly just in Sante Fe with his mom so maybe he came back home with her to Texas.

He might be there checking out his mom's photography exhibit at the SMU Meadows Museum, which runs through April 24th. It sounds like she is doing some work for the museum, too. The museum website does not mention the three amigos (good, she is an artist in her own right and not just somebody’s mom) but the newspaper blurb that I posted below it does.

smu.edu/meadowsmuseum/about_6Man.htm

This January, timed to coincide with Super Bowl XLV at the new Dallas Cowboys Stadium, the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University will present an exhibition exploring the regional tradition of six-man football. Six-Man Football: Photographs by Laura Wilson, will be on view from January 30–April 24, 2011, and will feature a selection of images from Wilson’s book Grit and Glory: Six-Man Football. The exhibition will examine the cultural importance of football to the Texas community, and the local tradition of the six-man version of the sport

An acclaimed photographer, Laura Wilson was an assistant to Richard Avedon for six years. Wilson’s documentation of Avedon’s creative process and working methods culminated in her publication of Avedon at Work: In the American West which was named Book of the Year by the Royal Photographic Society of England in 2004. Wilson become intrigued by six-man football in 1991, and spent the next eleven years taking several thousand photographs of six-man games. Using a Nikon camera, a 35 or 85 mm lens, and an on-camera flash, she employed a pared down technique meant to match the intensity and directness of the sport itself. Traveling through Texas, visiting small, rural towns, Wilson photographed games across the state, resulting in an exhibition that conveys the spirit of the sport and the passion for the game.

Football is an integral part of local Texas culture, and in towns too sparsely populated to field eleven-man teams, the tradition of six-man football became a common solution. With fewer players and a smaller field, six-man football is a game of speed and high scores. As the mother of three boys who played high school football in Dallas, Wilson understood the obsession with football, and became curious about the six-man incarnation of the sport after hearing about the high, basketball-like scores. Following a trip to Moran in Shackelford County one October night in 1991, Wilson became hooked on the game, and began driving hundreds of miles around the state, taking the photos that culminated in her book Grit and Glory, Six-Man Football: Photographs by Laura Wilson will include 31 photographs, featuring players from 14 cities in Texas.Wilson’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Washington Post Magazine, Texas Monthly, and London’s Sunday Times Magazine. In addition to Avedon at Work, Wilson has produced other books including Hutterites of Montana (2000), Watt Matthews of Lambshead (1989), and Grit and Glory: Six Man Football (2003). [Since 2009, the Meadows Museum has enjoyed a special relationship with Laura Wilson, who is photographing the museum’s collection of modern and contemporary sculpture for a forthcoming publication. Laura Wilson lives and works in Dallas, Texas.

From the paper:

www.dallasobserver.com/events/grit-and-glory-six-man-football-2090663/

Dallas photographer Laura Wilson--AKA as the football mom for brothers Luke, Owen and Andrew (yes, those Wilsons)--trekked around Texas documenting the sport on its smallest scale: six-man football. The six-man tradition, a faster and higher scoring adaptation of the 11-man lineup, emerged from the Great Depression, when many smaller schools couldn't field a full 11-man team. For the better part of the '90s, Wilson prowled tiny towns searching for scenes of Texana--capturing the gridiron, muddy victory and homecoming queens in stark black and white. Wilson pared down thousands of shots for her coffee table book, Grit and Glory: Six Man Football, also the name of the corresponding photography exhibit on the campus of Southern Methodist University. The free exhibit is open through April 23 at the Meadows Museum, 5900 Bishop Blvd. Museum hours are 10 a.m to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Call 214-768-2516 or visit meadowsmuseumdallas.org.