Documentary Photography, 1978-1984

I love classic, Depression-era documentary photography. My first solo exhibit, "Working", hung at the Texas AFL-CIO headquarters in 1980.

My second show, at the Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, was part of a larger project which brought Flaco Jimenez and his father Don Santiago Jimenez to play at the museum's new performance hall. We spent months shooting and interviewing Conjunto musicians in South Texas and the Mexico border area. 

Three Generations of Accordeonistas, Flaco, David, and Don Santiago Jimenez, San Antonio, ©1978 Scott Van Osdol

Proud to have this 1980 Texas Farmworkers Union photo in the Bullock Texas History Museum exhibit, “This Light of Ours, Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement”. Great exhibit, running thru 5/31/2020 in Austin.⁣ See The Story of Texas fo…

Proud to have this 1980 Texas Farmworkers Union photo in the Bullock Texas History Museum exhibit, “This Light of Ours, Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement”.