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Texas Monthly Feature, November 2001
For most of their lives, senior editor Joe Nick Patoski and freelance
photographer Laurence Parent have explored and chronicled the mountains
of the Trans-Pecos. In this excerpt from their forthcoming book, Texas
Mountains, they show and tell where their love of the outdoors is
at its peak.
Texas Mountains
University of Texas Press
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.
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December 9, 2002 Reviewer: A reader from Dallas, TX
"I'm a photographer not easily impressed. This book is simply the
best rendering of this breathtaking, little known part of Texas that I've
seen. The essay is well written and together with the photography makes
for a classic."
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by Dan Oko December 7, 2001
These almost-too-gorgeous photos transcend the prettiness of postcards;
the 10-by-11-inch, coffeetable format allows Parent to effectively hint
at the scale of the landscape. By contrast, Patoski applies most of his
able-bodied prose to the job of documenting the ranchers, restaurateurs,
teachers, and scientists who people West Texas. Parent's full-color photographs,
capturing the many moods of the Texas highlands -- rich tableaus of various
ranges, valleys, and stony outcroppings documented in an array of seasons
and under a variety of conditions. Patoski describes them as "a stone
freak show of weird globs, jagged spires, gravity-defying balancing acts,
marbled swirls, scoops of melted ice cream, and dribbled sandcastles that
vary wildly from extraterrestrial to lunar in appearance."
Amarillo
Globe-News
December 9, 2001
Takes the reader on a tour of some of the most magnificent views in Texas.
Prepare to visit well-known sites in the Guadalupe, Davis, and Chisos
Mountains and also less familiar but equally impressive views in areas
identified as Sierra Diablo, Eagle, Chinati, and Christmas. In words and
pictures, the book captures its subjects at all times of the day - dawn
to dusk - and all seasons, summer drought to winter snow. Patoski's "field
notes" are enlightening. According to the publisher, the work by Parent,
Austin free-lance photographer, and Patoski, a senior editor of Texas
Monthly, produces a result that is as close to being there as you can
get without endless driving across the daunting distances of the Lone
Star State.
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