The Texan famously snapped Waylon, Willie, and more
Melinda Wickman Swearingen, a photographer who captured iconic images of the Texas outlaw country music scene, died March 18. She was 76.
Born in Dallas and raised primarily in Wichita Falls, Tex., Swearingen moved to Austin in the late Sixties, where she worked at the LBJ Presidential Library archives at UT-Austin. As a budding photographer, she documented university political events, earning credits inBy the Seventies, Swearingen had switched from shooting political figures to musicians.
A service will be held in Montgomery Village on April 20. “In lieu of flowers,” Swearingen's obituary reads, “a donation could be made to the Wittliff Collection in her honor, or better yet, be generous with someone in her honor, do something kind and unexpected for one of the ‘forgotten ones’ as she would say.”has been Austin’s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene.
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