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For the last decade of the twentieth century, Pam Francis’s portraits graced covers of magazines such as this one, capturing subjects as disparate and accomplished as Beyoncé, Michael Dell, Lyle Lovett, Hakeem Olajuwon, and Ann Richards. In many of her photographs, Texas itself peeks into the frame, appearing in the form of the Houston skyline, Texas Stadium, an aged gas pump, or the wing of a Southwest airplane. Consumed together, Francis’s works read like so many well-lit variations on a theme: what, exactly, does a Texan look like? Francis, a Houstonian by birth, helped take the notion of a “Texan” to the national stage, contributing to a larger cultural understanding of our state and the people in it. In addition to her subject matter, Francis…
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