PDNB GALLERY

William Greiner
Neutral Ground: New Orleans 1990 – 2005

Book Signing: Saturday, April 5th // 2-5pm

One of the last events at our Dallas location is a book signing event on Saturday, April 5, 2025.

Since the 1990’s, PDNB Gallery has exhibited William Greiner’s photographs in solo and group shows. His newly released book, Neutral Ground: New Orleans 1990 – 2005, highlights the work that the gallery has celebrated from the pre-Hurricane Katrina era of New Orleans.

William Greiner (b. 1957, New Orleans, Louisiana) has been inspired by the great Southern photographers, William Eggleston, William Christenberry and Birney Imes. Color was the essential part of their work, the imagery embedded in the post-war south. Their documents brilliantly portrayed the unique landscape scattered with cars, worn buildings, open fields, diners, bedrooms, juke joints and more of the ordinary. But the drama was intensified by color. Color was the main character.

Greiner’s powerful image of the floating television on the book cover not only foretells the perils of an earth shattering hurricane, it gives pause to the waters running through the land of bayous, and the Great Mississippi, that river that bore southern tales.

His images unveil the beauty and the soul of this southern gem they call The Big Easy. He has not captured majesty but rather the banality of a city that deserves to be portrayed in color with all its dirt and aged buildings and thigh cream signs.

The book is an eloquent homage to William Greiner’s home town. It is published by The University of New Orleans Press, printed in Italy.

Greiner’s photographs are represented in the permanent collections of notable museum collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, IL, The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, the International Center of Photography, NYC, NY, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans.

This event is free. William Greiner will be signing books from 2:00 – 5:00 pm, Saturday, April 5, 2025.

PDNB Gallery

214.969.1852

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11 AM – 5 PM

Admission: Free

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