For more than five years award-winning photographer Geoff Winningham explored and photographed Buffalo Bayou, the Houston Ship Channel, and the landscape he found along the way. As he hiked and canoed the course of this historic stream, he found pristine stretches of the bayou still untouched by the encroaching city of Houston. He also found areas where the forces of nature and those of the growing city seemed to struggle for supremacy. He revisited sites of historic importance, such as Allen's Landing, where the city was ...
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For more than five years award-winning photographer Geoff Winningham explored and photographed Buffalo Bayou, the Houston Ship Channel, and the landscape he found along the way. As he hiked and canoed the course of this historic stream, he found pristine stretches of the bayou still untouched by the encroaching city of Houston. He also found areas where the forces of nature and those of the growing city seemed to struggle for supremacy. He revisited sites of historic importance, such as Allen's Landing, where the city was founded in 1836, and the San Jacinto Battlefield, where Texas won its independence in the same year. In Along Forgotten River , Winningham has sequenced eighty of his striking, large-format black-and-white photographs, following Buffalo Bayou from its source in the Katy Prairie through the suburbs and into the inner city of Houston. From there, his stunning duotone photographs follow the bayou east to its confluence with the San Jacinto River, where it becomes the Houston Ship Channel, crosses Galveston Bay, and enters the Gulf of Mexico. As a counterpoint to his photographs, Winningham has edited and sequenced passages from the written accounts of the earliest travelers to this part of Texas. Impelled by dreams or curiosity, an incredibly diverse lot of travelers came along the roads and streams of Texas in the preceding centuries. There were Spanish friars and itinerant preachers, prospective settlers, refugees, adventurers, exiles, and naturalists. Some travelers came with their families, looking for a place to settle. Mrs. Dilue Harris was one of these who came to Texas in the early 1830s. In her "Reminiscences," she recalled a night on Buffalo Bayou: "We were surrounded by wolves and water. There was a large sycamore tree that stood in the water near us, and it was as white as snow. The buzzards roosted in it. We could hear owls hoot all night. Mother said it was a night of horrors. . . . She said the owls were singing a funeral dirge, and the wolves and buzzards were waiting to bury us. . . ." In Along Forgotten River , Winningham has selected passages from the writings of these and other early travelers and interwoven them with his remarkable and beautiful photographs. The result is a complex and fascinating interplay of pictures and words, of historical perspective and present-day observation.
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*Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, Nov. 18 (sale item)* 160 pp., Hardcover, fine in fine dust jacket. -If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. CK2-A hardcover book SIGNED and dated by author on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Book inside pages lightly wavy, dust jacket and book have some light discoloration and shelf wear. In Along Forgotten River Winningham has selected passages from the writings of these and other early travelers and interwoven them with his remarkable and beautiful photographs. 9.5"x12.25", 164 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) Signed by the author/photographer Geoff Winningham on title page. Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Jacket has a touch of edge-wear (no chips or tears), plus a short shallow scratch on rear panel. 164 pages.
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Fine Condition in Fine Condition jacket. Inscribed by the Photographer. 164 pages 80 duotone photographs throughout. [INSCRIBED] Gift inscription on the front free endpaper "For Leslie, with the greatest respect and affection, thank you for all your support and help. Geoff"
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Fine Condition. No Jacket, As Issued. 164 pp., many black and white photographs throughout. First edition. Part of a limited edition, slipcased with an original photograph, signed and dated on the reverse. Photograph is securely kept in a pocket to the reverse endpaper. The photograph is titled, "Buffalo Bayou, 2001" and measures 8 x 10 inches.
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