GEOFF WINNINGHAM is professor of visual arts at Rice University. His work is included in major anthologies of photographs and is in most major collections in the U.S., including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the major art museums of Texas.
"...an absorbing new book. Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea
is the best kind of travel book - it takes you completely away.
What more could you ask for?"--John Sledge, al.com--John Sledge
(6/3/2012 12:00:00 AM)
". . . a wonderful read. . . Winningtham not only revels in the
history of the regions he traverses, he exhibits his own essential
humanity in his dealings with and regard for people he meets--often
less educated and fortunate than himself. . . flows seamlessly and
smoothly introducing the reader to Texas, Spanish and Mexican
history as it has intermixed and blended in the years since Pineda
surveyed the coastline for the Spanish Crown."--Bill Wright,
independent writer and photographer, author of The Texas Outback
(Texas A&M University Press, 2004)--Bill Wright "author, The
Texas Outback"
"Geoff Winningham's photographic journal is knowing and quirky. . .
from Sabine Pass, Texas to Veracruz, Mexico. . . He conflates a
hundred trips taken over many years into one seamless voyage of
discovery. . . stories that require the telling and reward the
listening. . . His book has garnered some impressive awards. . .
The book's 9 by 12 size (double-page photos are two-feet wide)
makes it stunningly attractive for the coffee table. Its
intertwined ruminations and adventures make it intellectually
satisfying for the armchair traveler. Highly recommended."--Texas
Review of Books-- "Texas Review of Books"
"Master photographer/journalist Geoff Winningham's Traveling the
Shore of the Spanish Sea is a lyrical confluence of images and text
- both a picture book and biography of that great sweep of
landscape and people and history that stretches 1,500 miles south
from the refinery-infested air along the Texas/Louisiana border all
the way down the Gulf Coast to the Shangri La of the Sierra de
Tuxtla in southern Veracruz. With his camera and notebook Mister
Winningham traveled every mile of it, stopping to visit with people
he met along the way, making his journey one of the heart as well
as of the eye. Never preachy, the resulting book is, by example,
both a lament for what has been despoiled or lost, and a
celebration for what remains. And most certainly it is a work of
art."--Bill Wittliff--Bill Wittliff
"Why should we love the world, the difficult world? Accomplished
picture makers and storytellers, of whom Geoff Winningham is surely
one, help us toward an answer by describing individual regions--in
this case the relatively little known western Gulf Coast--so
vividly and fondly that they impart even to our distant homes a
borrowed splendor. I am grateful. Winningham knows that he has
composed in some respects an elegy, but it is a tender and
redemptive one."--Robert Adams, photographer--Robert Adams,
photographer
"This book, once begun, is difficult to put down. A masterpiece of
story-telling, illuminated by breath-taking images, it is enlivened
with the author's adventures as he traverses the shore of the
Spanish Sea--often turned aside by the heart-rending circumstances
of the people he meets; truly a wonderful book, worthy of gracing
any bookshelf or bedside table."--Robert S. Weddle, author of
Spanish Sea: The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery,
1500-1665 (Texas A&M University Press, 2000)--Robert S. Weddle
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