PhotoBooks Texas

Some of the most beautiful views in Texas are also the most remote. Seemingly endless miles lie between the isolated mountain ranges of the Trans-Pecos and the more populous parts of Texas and New Mexico, ensuring that only those who really crave the solitude, rugged loveliness, and hundred-mile vistas of the mountains will ever make the trek. In this book, Laurence Parent and Joe Nick Patoski join forces to offer breathtaking views of the Texas mountains. With magnificent images and words, they take us on a journey not only through the familiar Guadalupe, Davis, and Chisos mountains, but also through lesser-known ranges with evocative names such as Sierra Diablo, Eagle, Chinati, Beach, and Christmas. Capturing the Texas mountains from first light to the glowing rays of sunset and from winter snows to summer droughts, Parent's photographs reveal many hidden treasures--pine forests, waterfalls, old forts, aspens, movie sets, Indian pictographs, and red-rock pinnacles. Patoski's text ranges as widely as the photos, using places from Marathon to El Paso's Franklin Mountains as starting points for "field notes" that explore the myriad ways in which the land has shaped and been shaped by the people who live on it. For everyone who longs for mountain views and wide-open spaces, Texas Mountains comes as close to being there as you can get without endless driving.

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Through the photography of David R. Stoecklein, The Texas Cowboys offers an intimate view of every region in Texas, including 23 of America's oldest, most prestigious ranches. There are breathtaking scenic images, portraits of people and ranch buildings, and action shots of wildlife, horses, cows, and cowboys at work and play. Here, too, along with strong portraits of Texas cowboys in their environments, and the elements of the place -- the hot sun, the fog and the rain, sunsets and sunrises. Each page reveals a place steeped in history, where freedom, beauty, pride, and hard work prevail.

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David Muench, America's leading landscape photographer, has been shooting Texas for over thirty years. This phenomenal collection of images will redefine Texas for residents and visitors alike. David Muench has always insisted that of all the spectacular places he has photographed, the Big bend area of Texas is his favorite. In this new book you'll see why, along with his views of the Texas Hill country, Gulf Coast, and the eastern bayous. (120 full-color photographs)

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Striking images by historical photographer Carol Highsmith, supported by the informed text of writer-reporter Ted Landphair, take the observer into the individual hearts of such a great American city. This book provides a souvenir of a memorable visit or can be a wish book for those who have yet to experience Texas' particular pleasures.

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Your child's first alphabet in truly a Texan setting. Join in this photographic celebration of Texas from A to Z. T is for Texas is a picture book to be shared with easy-to-read text and instructional photographs in full color. Texas tykes will learn their ABCs and discover some of the sights and symbols of the friendly state. Ages 3+.

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Book of Texas postcards

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Texas on my Mind celebrates the beauty and spirit of Texas-the land, wildlife, plant life, farms, ranches, cities, towns, and people-with outstanding color photography by the best photographers in Texas and the nation, including Laurence Parent, Richard Reynolds, Eleanor Brown, Frank Moster, David Muench, and many others. Accompanying the photographs are selected quotations by notable Texans and others who love the state, including John Graves, J. Frank Dobie, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Davy Crockett, Bill Porterfield, John Steinbeck, and Katherine Anne Porter. Texas on my Mind also features an introduction by Texas author A.C. Greene.

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John R. Blocker was a visionary who gifted Texans with a broad photographic canvas, rich in pictorial history as well as landscape pageantry. This collection of black-and-white photos from the 1920s to the 1940s truly captures the essence of Texas. The book also offers colorful essays of Texas history as well as segments of poetic prose that enhance the photos of our inspiring landscape, architecture, and heroic people.

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Around the world, Texas conjures legendary images. Parent offers them to readers with profound beauty and clarity, from the splendor of the Trans-Pecos region to the grandeur of the East Texas woods and the vastness of the northern prairies. 120 photos. 1 color relief map.

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Since its publication in 1980, The Guadalupe Mountains of Texas has received many honors, including the Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award from the Texas Institute of Letters and recognition for its superb design from the Rounce and Coffin Club.

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It is humble. Unassuming. Everyday and ordinary to millions of Texans. Yet, the complex network of twisted tributaries that is the Trinity River thunders, ambles, even crawls over 550 miles of Texas landscape and has shaped the destinies of Native Americans, outlaws, outcasts, dreamers, desperadoes, millionaires, military men, and many others over thousands of years. Luther Smith's series of more than fifty photographs taken over seven years of various stages and locations on the Trinity captures the river's many personalities: the meandering West Fork in Archer County, the pollution-littered shore where the West Fork runs through Fort Worth, the flooding which occasionally spills into cities and over highways.

Mike Nichols' essay on the river provides an insightful and nostalgic look into the Trinity's shaping and being shaped by generations of Texans. Thomas W. Southall's essay, "Reflections on a River's Convergence," discusses landscape photography and, more specifically, the photography of Smith. Though Smith is active in efforts to preserve the natural environment, this series is both a call to environmental consciousness and a reminder of the quiet, humble wilderness that still exists but is often unseen. His photographs embody the natural simplicity of often unnoticed parts of the Texas landscape. Each photograph is a mood, a face of the time-shaping river. And each is its own story.

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Whether it shows a summer thunderstorm rolling across the plains of the Llano Estacado or a full moon rising on a clear winter night, the sky is the most commanding presence in the Texas landscape. As Georgia O'Keeffe once wrote from Canyon to a friend, "I am loving the plains more than ever it seems--and the SKY--Anita you have never seen SKY--it is wonderful." Wyman Meinzer observes that "recording the vibrant and sometimes forbidding nature of the sky has been one of the most enjoyable photographic endeavors of my career." The one hundred breathtaking color images in this book reveal the beauty, drama, unpredictability, and sheer expanse of Texas' sky. Meinzer observes the sky from first light to the star trails in a night exposure. He presents the full palette of sunrise and sunset hues, the endless variety of cloud formations, and the cobalt blue of the sky after a winter norther. Most of all, he captures the feelings of freedom and power that so many people experience under the Texas sky. In a beautifully written essay, John Graves connects Meinzer's photos to the land and the people of Texas. Meinzer's preface describes the careful planning and lucky chances that yielded many of these photographs, while interspersed among them are quotes from Texas skywatchers past and present. Taken together, the stunning images and eloquent words say all there is to say about the Texas sky.

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