| San Antonio's Spanish Missions: A Portrait Contributor(s): Fisher, Lewis F. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1595347100 ISBN-13: 9781595347107 Publisher: Maverick Books OUR PRICE: $26.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) - Architecture | Buildings - Religious - Architecture | Historic Preservation - General |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 8.8" W x 11.9" (1.55 lbs) 112 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This elegant coffee-table volume displays more than 100 color photographs by architectural photographer Mike Osborne, providing a distinctive contemporary portrait of the five mission complexes, now partly restored, partly still in ruins. One, better known as the Alamo, is a memorial to its defenders in 1836. The four others comprise San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. Each section begins with a dramatic 19th-century image. Osborne's color photographs range from interior views of the Alamo to a mariachi mass at San Jos to a composite of rifle portholes in Espada's bastion, with other dramatic views of the missions and related landmarks in between. |