Join us from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, June 12, for an author talk and book signing with writer and photographer Randy Mallory.

The Fifty-Year Texas Road Trip: On Assignment from Earth to Uncertain is drawn from thousands of images contained in the Randy Mallory Collection at the University of North Texas. The collection and this book serve as a colorful and telling record of one photographer’s attempt to capture Texas’s sense of place during an important and ever-changing half century (1972-2022).

Randy Mallory is a fourth-generation Texan who spent fifty years as a travel writer and photographer covering diverse Texas topics. He contributed hundreds of photos and articles to statewide publications such as Texas Highways, Texas Co-Op Power, Texas Journey, Texas Monthly and the Dallas Morning News. Mallory donated his photography archive to UNT Special Collections in 2021.