| Fault Lines: Portraits of East Austin Contributor(s): Langmore, John (Author), King, Michael (Foreword by), Delco, Wilhelmina (With) |
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ISBN: 1595348972 ISBN-13: 9781595348975 Publisher: Maverick Books OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) - Photography | Photoessays & Documentaries - Photography | Individual Photographers - General |
| Dewey: 917.643 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.8" W x 9.1" (1.10 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: East Austin, just across Interstate 35 from Austin, Texas's capital city, is a historically working-class neighborhood that in recent years has become an arts district and hotbed for real estate developers targeting a young urban population. The shops and restaurants that for decades served Latino and African American residents are being crowded out by coffee shops, cocktail bars, and upscale bakeries hoping to attract newer residents. The resulting tensions, part of a trend debated in cities across the country, have received national media attention. After years of observing the fragmentation of east Austin's Latino and African American communities, photographer John Langmore began to chronicle the historic neighborhood and its residents. His aim was to capture the gentrifying neighborhood's unique nature and to make Texans aware of the people and places negatively affected by the state's growth. Fault Lines features more than a hundred color and black-and-white photographs taken between 2006 and 2010, during which time Langmore was fully aware that the window for capturing the east Austin community was rapidly closing. Indeed today many of the neighborhood places, and even the people, have been lost to development and increasing rents and property taxes. The book features a foreword by Michael King, a longtime political reporter for the Austin Chronicle; essays by east Austin resident Wilhelmina Delco, Austin's first African American elected official and a ten-term member of the Texas House of Representatives, and Johnny Lim n, a sixty-six-year resident of east Austin and a prominent member of the neighborhood's Latino community; and an epilogue by Langmore. |
Contributor Bio(s): King, Michael: - Michael King has reported about Austin for thirty years in the Texas Observer and the Austin Chronicle, where he was news editor from 2000 to 2016 and is currently a staff writer.Delco, Wilhelmina: - The Hon. Wilhelmina Delco became Austin's first Black elected official in 1968 as a member of the Austin Independent School District board of trustees. She later served ten terms in the Texas House of Representatives, during which time she chaired the Committee of Higher Education for twelve years and was also speaker pro tempore. She has four children, nine grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.Limon, Johnny: - Johnny Limón is an East Austin advocate whose family has lived in the neighborhood since the 1930s. His mother, Eloisa Ojeda Limón, lived in her East Austin home until her passing at the age of 104. Five generations of Limóns currently reside in Austin.Langmore, John: - John Langmore is a photographer and a founding member of the Austin Center for Photography. He took up photography when his corporate job as an attorney brought him to the Far East. In addition to his work in east Austin, Langmore recently completed a five-year project documenting the American cowboy, and his photographs have appeared in two major museum exhibitions, including at the Briscoe Western Art Museum. He has served on the board of Capital Metro and on state, county, and city boards in an effort to influence the way Austin evolves. |