Hometown Texas
Trinity University Press,U.S.
Published on 23. November 2017
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-1-59534-807-4 (ISBN)
Description
Joe Holley has an active column in the Houston Chronicle
Peter Brown's previous books published by Norton
Great regional Texas appeal: Pictures include Ivanhoe State Bank in Lipscomb, Galveston-Bolivar Ferry, Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Marathon, Rio Grande, Davis Mountains, Fort Davis, Pecos, Marfa, San Angelo, McCamey, Boquillas (Mexico), Davis Mountains State Park, Patricia, Silverton, Higgins, Allison, Dozier, Cottle County, Allison, Shamrock, Windthorst, Follett, Perryton, Paducah, Llano, Moulton, Edna, Utopia, Fayetteville, Bynum, Calvert, Luling, Mason, Pipe Creek, Bandera, Dubina, Matagorda County, Vega, Collegeport, Carancahua Bay, Palacios, Edinburgh, Progreso, Kingsville, Premont, McAllen, Falfurrias, Houston, Katy Prairie, Gilchrist, Bolivar Peninsula, Galveston Island, Kountz, Town Bluff, Wallisville, Coldspring, Dayton, BonAmi, Shiloh, Huntsville, Raywood, Kenefick, Woodville, Brazos Bend State Park, Liberty, and Damon, Texas.
Peter Brown's previous books published by Norton
Great regional Texas appeal: Pictures include Ivanhoe State Bank in Lipscomb, Galveston-Bolivar Ferry, Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park, Marathon, Rio Grande, Davis Mountains, Fort Davis, Pecos, Marfa, San Angelo, McCamey, Boquillas (Mexico), Davis Mountains State Park, Patricia, Silverton, Higgins, Allison, Dozier, Cottle County, Allison, Shamrock, Windthorst, Follett, Perryton, Paducah, Llano, Moulton, Edna, Utopia, Fayetteville, Bynum, Calvert, Luling, Mason, Pipe Creek, Bandera, Dubina, Matagorda County, Vega, Collegeport, Carancahua Bay, Palacios, Edinburgh, Progreso, Kingsville, Premont, McAllen, Falfurrias, Houston, Katy Prairie, Gilchrist, Bolivar Peninsula, Galveston Island, Kountz, Town Bluff, Wallisville, Coldspring, Dayton, BonAmi, Shiloh, Huntsville, Raywood, Kenefick, Woodville, Brazos Bend State Park, Liberty, and Damon, Texas.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Peter Brown's West of Last Chance"A major book whose implications and historic significance will increase for years to come." - Rick Bass, author of The Lives of Rocks
"An achievement of sublime alchemy. By its end, my notions of beauty, space, and time were irrevocably altered." - Mark Spragg, author of An Unfinished Life
"Somehow his pictures inhabit the viewer's brain, take up residence there . . . the latest chapter in a magnificent body of work." - Geoff Dyer, author of The Ongoing Moment
Praise for Joe Holley's Slingin' Sam: The Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback Ever to Play the Game
"A valuable contribution to football history." - Booklist
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Antonio
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Color photographs throughout
Dimensions
Height: 221 mm
Width: 259 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
1429 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59534-807-4 (9781595348074)
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Peter Brown has photographed landscapes and small towns for twenty-five years. He is the author of Seasons of Light, On the Plains, and West of Last Chance, a collaboration with novelist Kent Haruf that won the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize. His work has been collected by the Menil Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, MoMA New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He teaches photography at the Glasscock School at Rice University and lives in Houston.