Keith Carter

Keith Carter is a black and white photographer,often called a "transcendent realist". His photos tell stories and are very narrative. The majority of his work deals with southern folklore and depicts stories Carter either read or heard. His images incorporate feeling and sentiment,and human relationships with other people or different things are often easily found.


Carter's photographs,overall,tend to have a dreamlike quality. He plays with depth of field to dramatize his subjects. He has a wide range of subjects- people (clothed or unclothed),animals,landscapes,objects.






Many of his photos that do include people seem to give us less information than what may be desired. Sometimes,they are not much more than silhouettes within the image. It seems as though he uses this technique more often than he gives more detail and information about the subject. However,much of his work does include detail. This is an example of how diverse a photographer Carter is. He is able to photograph a wide range of subjects using multiple techniques,and still tie them all together somehow in the end.