This Wednesday evening, award-winning writer and novelist Geoff Dyer will be in conversation with filmmaker Sasha Waters Freyer at the new central location of the Austin Public Library. Geoff Dyer penned one-hundred original mini-essays engaging a masterfully curated selection of photographs to produce the new book The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand. Dyer's book was highlighted as an editor’s choice in the New York Times and reviewed in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Sasha Waters Freyer premiered her feature-
length documentary film, Garry Winogrand: All Things are Photographable, at this year's SXSW film festival. Join us in celebrating the stunning new library and enjoy Geoff Dyer discussing Winogrand images drawn from his essays and Sasha Waters Freyer presenting excerpts from her award-winning documentary. Photography, Film & Conversation with Geoff Dyer & Sasha Waters Freyer Wednesday, May 16th at 7pm Austin Public Library, Central In conjunction with the Austin Public Library and the Austin Public Library Friends Foundation
Garry Winogrand was one of the most important photographers of the 1960’s and 1970’s—along with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander. Decades before digital technology transformed how we produce and consume images, Winogrand made hundreds of thousands of photos with his 35mm Leica. His “snapshot aesthetic” captured a portrait of America from the late 1950s to the early 1980s, the New York City of Mad Men and the early years of the Women’s Movement. When Winogrand died suddenly at age 56 in 1984, Winogrand left behind more than 10,000 rolls of film. With so many unseen images, it has taken until now for the full measure of his artistic legacy to emerge. Sasha Waters Freyer's film depicts a larger-than-life American artist, full of contradictions and totally unresolved. Watch the trailer for the documentary here.
Take a virtual tour of the new downtown location of theAustin Public Library here, where readers can enjoy reading porches overlooking Shoal Creek and Lady Bird Lake, and a rooftop garden with the largest solar installation in downtown Austin. Co-designed by San Antonio architecture firm Lake | Flato Architects (check out our book Lake Flato Houses: Embracing the Landscape), the library also features a wonderful piece of public art, “Caw” by artist Christian Moeller, a grackle-inspired, 37-foot-tall kinetic sculpture with an LED screen.
ABOUT GEOFF DYER Dyer’s many books include The Ongoing Moment (winner of the International Center of Photography’s prestigious Infinity Award for Writing/Criticism), But Beautiful (winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize), Out of Sheer Rage (shortlisted for a National Book Critics Circle Award), The Missing of the Somme, the novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award). His latest book is White Sands: Experiences from the Outside World. A recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, the E. M. Forster Prize and, most recently, the Windham-Campbell Prize for nonfiction, Dyer is an honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. Dyer is currently writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California.
ABOUT SASHA WATERS FREYERS
Sasha Waters Freyer creates nonfiction films about outsiders, misfits, and everyday radicals. Trained in photography and the documentary tradition, she fuses original and found footage in 16mm film and video. Past projects have screened at the Telluride Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the film festivals in Rotterdam, Tribeca, Big Sky, Havana, Videoex, and Ann Arbor, IMAGES in Toronto, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, the Museum of the Moving Image in New York, Union Docs, the Pacific Film Archive, L.A. Film Forum, and Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, as well as the Sundance Channel and international cable and public television. She is the Chair of the Department of Photography + Film at Virginia Commonwealth University.
On Saturday, April 5, the University of Texas Press and 8 of our authors will enjoy the 2nd annual San Antonio Book Festival at the Central Library and environs in downtown San Antonio. We'll have a booth in the Exhibitor Tent with tons of titles for sale at a great discount. There are a lot of great authors in attendance (Philipp Meyer! Sandra Cisneros!), so we’ve distilled our authors' appearances into a single UT Press schedule:
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Authentic Texas: People of the Big Bend Location: Rogers Hall, Southwest School of Art, Navarro Campus (1st Floor) Authors: Marcia Hatfield Daudistel and Bill Wright Moderator: Scott Martin
12:00 PM — 1:00 PM Our Town: Stories That Shaped San Antonio
Wynn Bullock: Revelations High Museum of Art with Brett Abbott With contributions by Barbara Bullock-Wilson and Maria L. Kelly With a collection of images that spans Wynn Bullock’s entire oeuvre–some published here for the first time–this volume offers the most comprehensive assessment in nearly forty years of the extraordinary career of one of the leading photographers of the mid-twentieth century.
Atlanta's High Museum of Art will have a Wynn Bullock exhibition on display this summer. Read more here: www.high.org >>
Man and Beast: Photographs from Mexico and India By Mary Ellen Mark This remarkably engaging, occasionally unsettling photo essay by the internationally acclaimed photographer of Seen Behind the Scene, Exposure, Falkland Road, and Ward 81 presents powerful images, most never before published, that probe the humanity of animals and the lurking beast within humans.
Featuring high-quality reproductions of images newly scanned from the original negatives and printed uncropped, this book presents the most complete and beautifully produced catalogue of photographs of the Tarahumara, Huichol, Cora, Tepehuan, Southern Pima, and Tohono O’odham tribes of Mexico and southwest Arizona.
By David Sterling With over 275 authentic, easy-to-follow recipes, lively stories of their origins, and luscious illustrations, here is the definitive work on the foods of Yucatán, one of the world’s great regional cuisines.
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One Hundred Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor By Pablo Neruda, Translated by Stephen Tapscott Beautifully redesigned as a gift edition, this bilingual Spanish-English volume, which has sold nearly 250,000 copies, presents the joyfully erotic love poetry of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda.
American Christianity: The Continuing Revolution By Stephen Cox This lively, provocative book argues that American Christianity can best be understood as a faith always undergoing radical and unpredictable change as believers seek new ways of connecting with God.
Lake/Flato Houses: Embracing the Landscape Lake|Flato Houses This lavishly illustrated book presents an extensive selection of landmark homes built since 1999 by the San Antonio firm Lake|Flato Architects, an award-winning leader in sustainable architecture that merges with the landscape.
Surf Texas By Kenny Braun Evocative and nostalgic, this extended photo essay presents an insider’s portrait of the surf culture of Texas, one of the top six surfing states in America, as well as the singular and sometimes unexpected beauty of the Texas coast.
Midcentury Modern Art in Texas By Katie Edwards Extensively illustrated with works that have not been previously published, Midcentury Modernism in Texas gives Texas artists their due place in American art during this vital and canon-defining period, while also valuing the quality of Texan-ness that subtly undergirds much of their production.
Focusing on star writer/performer comedians—Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres—Pretty/Funny demonstrates that women’s comedy has become a prime site of feminism in the twenty-first century.
