The Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection at Texas State University-San Marcos is a creative center and archives devoted to the photographic cultures of Mexico and the Southwestern United States. Our mission is to bring together a comprehensive range of work from the region that represents the history of photography from the 19th century to the present day, with an emphasis on contemporary imagery.
Serving students, faculty, visiting scholars, and the community, the Southwestern & Mexican Photography Collection reveals the importance of photography as a document of social realities and a testimony of personal visions. This goal is carried out by collecting and preserving photographic images, designing and promoting exhibitions from the collections, publishing the Wittliff Gallery book series with the University of Texas Press, maintaining an active world wide web site, hosting travelling exhibits, and supporting research in our own photographic holdings and in our collection of books, manuscripts, serial publications, and ephemera related to the photographic arts.