Back in 2012, WriteByNight co-founder David Duhr and I had the good fortune to meet an Austin-based photographer who was hard at work on some very cool projects, among them a one-of-a-kind art book called "Capital Improvements" about Austin's rapid development.
That book now retails at $7,500.
That photographer's name is Mark Goodman, with whom we've had the pleasure to work these past few years, lovingly editing the essays that accompany his beautiful photographs.
David and I aren't the only ones who are excited about Mark's work. Check out this piece in the Austin-American Statesman about Mark's fascinating and sometimes decades-long projects.
Writer, photographer, or anthropologist, we should all take a page from Mark's book in finding patience for the often painstakingly slow artistic process. That patience pays off in the end.
Downtown Austin frozen in the early 1980s
by photographer Mark Goodman
"In 1982, almost an entire downtown block at Sixth Street and Congress Avenue was leveled to build One American Center, which became, in 1984, Austin’s tallest building.
"Still fairly new to town, photographer Mark Goodman was fascinated by the scene.
"'I was attracted to the light and the way it landed on the buildings and the cityscape,' says Goodman, who taught at the University of Texas for 33 years. 'It was still open. Not skyscraper tunnels like New York or Dallas. There was a beautiful sense of photographic light and change, and it was interesting to look at.'"
Read the rest of the article here, and enjoy your holiday
weekend.
