Color photograph documented 2024-01-23 at the Witte Museum, San Antonio, in the exhibit 'Mi Cultura — Bringing Shadows Into the Light: The Photography of Al Rendón' (a 50-year retrospective of San Antonio Tejano cultural photographer Al Rendón, curated by Bruce Shackelford and Katherine Nelson Hall, on view 2 September 2023 – 27 May 2024 in the South Texas Heritage Center as part of the 2023 FOTOSEPTIEMBRE festival), of a vertical 'Nuestra Cultura · 75 Años' lanyard pass — almost certainly Al Rendón's own working press pass from Mi Tierra Cafe & Bakery's September 2016 75th-anniversary celebration, displayed in the exhibit's run of personal press passes used throughout Rendón's career — hanging by its black lanyard from a silver alligator-style metal clip against a pale exhibit wall, with the corner of an adjacent striped exhibit element just visible at right; the card carries a sepia-and-burgundy stylized portrait treatment of the same painted Cortez-family / Mi Tierra storefront imagery already documented in the project (the painted portrait of Pedro and Cruz Cortez published in Edible San Antonio Aug/Sep 2016 and used at the 2016 La Familia Cortez 75th-anniversary celebration), here showing in the foreground head-and-shoulders portraits of Cruz Cortez wearing a hat with two pink-and-yellow flower decorations and a brooch on her dark coat and Pedro Cortez in a dark suit, white shirt, and dark tie, against a backdrop assembled from the cafe's historical signage including (upper left) a 'MI TIERRA / CAFE / TACOS / MENUDO' block sign, (left of center) a 'Tierra CAFE / and BAKERY / WE SPECIALIZE IN / MEXICAN FOOD' sign panel, (center) a small inset portrait of an older woman in a hat or kerchief (probably Doña Cruz Cortez at the cafe), (center right) a small 'Mi Tierra / [EM]PANADAS' bakery reference, and (upper right) a vertical painted wall sign on a tile-and-stucco wall reading **'MASTER / CHEF / COFFEE'** in three stacked lines — Master Chef being Hoffmann-Hayman's hotel-and-restaurant trade brand, on Mi Tierra's storefront since the 1950s; 'Nuestra Cultura' in cream script and '75 Años' in cream below cap the bottom of the card; not in the museum collection
Color photograph documented 2024-01-23 at the Witte Museum, San Antonio, in the exhibit 'Mi Cultura — Bringing Shadows Into the Light: The Photography of Al Rendón' (a 50-year retrospective of San Antonio Tejano cultural photographer Al Rendón, curated by Bruce Shackelford and Katherine Nelson Hall, on view 2 September 2023 – 27 May 2024 in the South Texas Heritage Center as part of the 2023 FOTOSEPTIEMBRE festival), of a vertical 'Nuestra Cultura · 75 Años' lanyard pass — almost certainly Al Rendón's own working press pass from Mi Tierra Cafe & Bakery's September 2016 75th-anniversary celebration, displayed in the exhibit's run of personal press passes used throughout Rendón's career — hanging by its black lanyard from a silver alligator-style metal clip against a pale exhibit wall, with the corner of an adjacent striped exhibit element just visible at right; the card carries a sepia-and-burgundy stylized portrait treatment of the same painted Cortez-family / Mi Tierra storefront imagery already documented in the project (the painted portrait of Pedro and Cruz Cortez published in Edible San Antonio Aug/Sep 2016 and used at the 2016 La Familia Cortez 75th-anniversary celebration), here showing in the foreground head-and-shoulders portraits of Cruz Cortez wearing a hat with two pink-and-yellow flower decorations and a brooch on her dark coat and Pedro Cortez in a dark suit, white shirt, and dark tie, against a backdrop assembled from the cafe's historical signage including (upper left) a 'MI TIERRA / CAFE / TACOS / MENUDO' block sign, (left of center) a 'Tierra CAFE / and BAKERY / WE SPECIALIZE IN / MEXICAN FOOD' sign panel, (center) a small inset portrait of an older woman in a hat or kerchief (probably Doña Cruz Cortez at the cafe), (center right) a small 'Mi Tierra / [EM]PANADAS' bakery reference, and (upper right) a vertical painted wall sign on a tile-and-stucco wall reading **'MASTER / CHEF / COFFEE'** in three stacked lines — Master Chef being Hoffmann-Hayman's hotel-and-restaurant trade brand, on Mi Tierra's storefront since the 1950s; 'Nuestra Cultura' in cream script and '75 Años' in cream below cap the bottom of the card; not in the museum collection
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