Local Photographer’s Exhibit on Civil War Sites Bound for AC

Red Bluff

Cindy Wallace, an Amarillo photographer who specializes in landscapes, historic properties and Americana, particularly endangered Civil War sites, will display some of her photographs this spring at Amarillo College.

Wallace’s exhibit is titled “A Terrible Beauty” and features photographs of now-peaceful sites where war raged and Reconstruction impinged on southern life during the 1860s.

The photographs will be featured from March 2 until April 9 in the Southern Light Gallery on the first floor of Lynn Library on AC’s Washington Street Campus.

Also co-author of the Civil War Savanah Series, a four-part pictorial and textual history of Civil War sites in and around Savannah, Ga., Wallace is a freelance commercial journalist whose biographical sketch begins: “Cindy Wallace was born during a wild Texas Panhandle snowstorm in 1955.”

She earned her undergraduate degree in art education at Armstrong Atlantic State University. She then attended Georgia Southern University for her master’s degree in photography.

In her Artist’s Statement with relation to the exhibit upcoming, Wallace states: “My goal is to encourage preservation of historic sites that may be lost to urbanization. For me, the images are a link to the past and hopefully a bridge to the future.”

For more information about the photo display or the Southern Light Gallery, contact René West, assistant professor of photography at Amarillo College, at 806-345-5654 or.

 

February 19, 2015