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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Geoff Winningham:  book signing and discussion\nEve
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 signing_and_discussion\nEvent Date Begin: 2010-03-09\nEvent Date End: 2010
 -03-09\n\nBrazos Bookstore presents Geoff Winningham\, who signs and discu
 sses Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea: The Gulf Coast of Texas and M
 exico\, Tuesday\, March 9\, at 7pm.\nIn a work of sweeping breadth and bea
 uty\, Houston photographer Geoff Winningham has created a profusely illust
 rated\, contemplative travel journal that showcases his talent as both a p
 hotographer and a writer and reveals his affection and respect for the two
  countries he calls home. In 2003\, Winningham saw for the first time both
  the southern coast of Veracruz\, with its volcanoes\, rain forests\, and 
 steep mountains\, and the Texas coast near High Island\, where the land se
 ems to stretch endlessly\, covered by a sea of salt grass. He decided that
  these two visually striking areas could be the beginning and end points o
 f a photographic study that would also engage the two cultures in which he
  had lived for twenty years\, the U.S. and Mexico.\nNow\, seven years and 
 more than a hundred trips later\, Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea: 
 The Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico is the result. In this beautifully illu
 strated and engagingly written book\, Winningham also considers the role t
 hat the Gulf of Mexico played in the discovery and exploration of the New 
 World.\nWinningham's journey begins east of High Island\, in Port Arthur\,
  where the images suggest a cautionary tale relating to the oil industry a
 nd the land. It ends twelve hundred miles down the coast at the end of an 
 old\, stone road in tropical terrain of almost indescribable beauty\, over
 looking the sea. In between\, more than two hundred photographs include na
 tural landscapes (ranging from unspoiled to completely despoiled)\, roadsi
 de architecture and signage\, and images of people Winningham met. As he a
 ttempts to come to terms with the disturbing changes he witnessed to the c
 oastal environment\, the book also contains elements of a poignant\, perso
 nal lament for what is being lost.\nTraveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea
 : The Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico will delight and enchant readers with
  its deeply felt personal narrative and the power and beauty of its images
 .\nGeoff Winningham is professor of visual arts at Rice University\, where
  he has taught photography since 1969. His work is included in major antho
 logies of photographs and is in most major collections in the U.S.\, inclu
 ding the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New Yor
 k\, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts\, and the major art museums of Texas.\n
 \nStart time: 7:00pm
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SUMMARY:Geoff Winningham:  book signing and discussion
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