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Michael O'BrienWillie Nelson, Spicewood, Texas - Black and White Portrait, Country Musician1999
1999
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Willie Nelson, Spicewood, Texas by Michael O'Brien is a black and white portrait of the adored country singer, songwriter and guitarist. This portrait features the side profile of Willie, with his iconic braided hairstyle.
Archival Pigment Print
Image size: 16 x 16 inches
Paper size: 20 x 20 inches
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso.
Michael O’Brien was born in Memphis, TN, in 1950. Growing up in a river town in the deep South left its mark, which continues to manifest itself in his candid photographs of people.
When he was 18, O’Brien entered the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. His friends were all musicians, but because he “lacked musical talent,” he picked up a camera instead.
“It was an accident,” says O’Brien, who became a staff photographer for the UT Daily Beacon, the campus newspaper, “but it took. It was a way for me to connect to people.”
He helped put himself through school with the $4-per-published-image he earned, along with occasional freelance jobs. By the time he graduated--with a philosophy degree-- he had amassed a solid black-and-white portfolio, and he eventually snagged a job as a staff photographer for the Miami News.
“It was one of the best times in my life,” says O’Brien, who won two Robert F. Kennedy Journalism awards while at the newspaper. “I did an average of three assignments a day, and every one of them was different.” Spot news assignments ranged from intense police scenes like double homicides to lighthearted portraits of the paper’s featured “Cook of the Month.”
The confidence he gained covering every walk of life--and the resulting portfolio--served as a springboard for the next phase of his career, freelance magazine photography. O’Brien moved to New York and for the next 14 years, he photographed people for Life, Geo, the New York Times Sunday Magazine, National Geographic, Esquire, Fortune and others. His subjects have included such celebrities as Willie Nelson and George Bush, as well as unknowns like Shannon Perry, the first “Gatorfest Queen” of Anahuac, TX, and artist Ran Horn, the “Van Gogh” of tiny Van Horn, TX.
When O’Brien and his wife Elizabeth had three children, he began doing advertising photography as well. For more than five years, he worked on Apple’s Powerbook ad campaign that featured such incongruous celebrity pairings as Todd Rundgren and Jesuit priest Don Doll. The campaign won a CLIO award, was nominated for two Kelley awards, and was named by Photo District News as one of the best ad campaigns of the last 25 years.
Since 1993, O’Brien and his family have lived in Austin, TX, where he continues to do both advertising and magazine work. Besides many of the above-mentioned magazines, his clients include Texas Monthly, Nike, Apple Computer, VISA, Wrangler Jeans, Bank of America and dozens of others. In 2003, he published his first book, a collaboration with Elizabeth, a former LIFE reporter, titled The Face of Texas. The book is a collection of portraits and stories of Texans, both famous and “ordinary.”
O’Brien’s photographs are in the permanent collections of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography in New York, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Tennessee State Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Wittliff Collection of Southwestern and Mexican Photography.
O’Brien is a contributing photographer to Texas Monthly and ESPN, The Magazine and has just completed an assignment for National Geographic Magazine on River Oaks, a Houston neighborhood.
- Creator:Michael O'Brien (1950, American)
- Creation Year:1999
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Denton, TX
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU21515286392
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