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Big Bend Pictures by James Evans 2003
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- ISBN
- 9780292720961
- Book Title
- Big Bend Pictures
- Book Series
- Bill and Alice Wright Photography Ser.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Item Length
- 12 in
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Genre
- Photography, Nature
- Topic
- Individual Photographers / General, General
- Item Weight
- 63.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 12 in
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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Winner, Rounce & Coffin Club Western Books Exhibition, 2004Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2003 It takes a long time to get to know the Big Bend. Just to look at all the mountains and canyons and desert horizons can take weeks of driving and hiking. And to get acquainted with the independent, self-contained, slightly quirky people who call this place home ...well, that can take a lifetime. James Evans understands that. Recalling his decision to make the Big Bend his artistic muse and photographic subject, he says, "I moved here in 1988 to dedicate my life to the Big Bend and its people. I don't shoot pictures and leave and make a book. This work is a slow accumulation of years of being here. The mountains are familiar friends and the people my heroes. I am one of them." In this book, James Evans records the landscapes and the people of the Big Bend in all their beauty, harshness, and character. Images such as "South Rim with Agave," "Eyes of the Chisos," and "The Road to Candelaria" capture the distances, openness, and rough loveliness that draw people to this remote part of the Texas-Mexico border. Evans's photographs of people--legendary ranchwoman Hallie Stillwell, Kickapoo girls at a ceremonial dance, national park superintendent Ross Maxwell, school boys in Boquillas, Mexico, to mention only a few--show a deeply felt, but anti-sentimental understanding of his Big Bend neighbors. Other images, such as "Snake and Jesus," "Drug Blimp," and "Rope-O-Matic" reveal the whimsical, offbeat sensibility that sets Evans apart from others who have photographed the Big Bend. Also included are equally distinctive "Notes and Stories," in which Evans talks about how he came to photograph each particular person and each place and what they mean to him. Robert Draper's foreword pinpoints why Evans's work has such irresistible appeal. In his words, "The photographs of James Evans celebrate the unburnished beauty of Big Bend country as a way of celebrating the free spirit. I see no way out of voicing the cliche this is a deeply life-affirming collection."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN-10
0292720963
ISBN-13
9780292720961
eBay Product ID (ePID)
948441
Product Key Features
Book Title
Big Bend Pictures
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2003
Topic
Individual Photographers / General, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Photography, Nature
Book Series
Bill and Alice Wright Photography Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
63.7 Oz
Item Length
12 in
Item Width
12 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"Resisting the temptation of melon-hued sunsets, Evans works with documentary-style black-and-white photography. The landscapes he captures are not simply blas, wide-angle homages to the hallowed frontier: they reveal Big Bend's quirks and bemused attitudes, suggesting the hitherto blasphemous - namely, that the American West can have a sense of humor, and at times be downright weird. Above all, Evans is exposing beauty from its proper angles. To see Big Bend through his eyes is to gaze upon an altogether alien world, and in so doing, to feel our innocence reawaken." Robert Draper, "Resisting the temptation of melon-hued sunsets, Evans works with documentary-style black-and-white photography. The landscapes he captures are not simply blasé, wide-angle homages to the hallowed frontier: they reveal Big Bend's quirks and bemused attitudes, suggesting the hitherto blasphemous - namely, that the American West can have a sense of humor, and at times be downright weird. Above all, Evans is exposing beauty from its proper angles. To see Big Bend through his eyes is to gaze upon an altogether alien world, and in so doing, to feel our innocence reawaken." Robert Draper
Lccn
2002-009354
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
976.493063
Lc Classification Number
Qh75.E835 1998
Copyright Date
2003
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