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Fort Worth - (Hardcover)

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  • Phil Vinson grew up in Fort Worth, fascinated by the city's visual icons--Mrs. Baird's Bakery on Summit Avenue, historic Thistle Hill, the tower at the Will Rogers Complex, the Tarrant County Courthouse, the Texas Electric smokestacks, the art-deco design of the Texas & Pacific depot, the Paddock Viaduct.
  • About the Author: Phil Vinson was a reporter/photographer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for several years before opening his own photography business.
  • 108 Pages
  • History, United States

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Phil Vinson grew up in Fort Worth, fascinated by the city's visual icons--Mrs. Baird's Bakery on Summit Avenue, historic Thistle Hill, the tower at the Will Rogers Complex, the Tarrant County Courthouse, the Texas Electric smokestacks, the art-deco design of the Texas & Pacific depot, the Paddock Viaduct. He started making photographs while still in his teens but says it was as an adult that he rediscovered the visual richness of his hometown. Once he started photographing, he couldn't stop. For the past four decades, through careers as a journalist, photographer, and teacher, he has spent the weekends driving around taking pictures.

Vinson has particular respect for subjects that have been around for enough years to acquire a certain dignity and nobility. Aware that the days of many of these old structures may be numbered, he has tried to document such buildings as the Seventh Street Theater before they disappeared to the wrecking ball.

Fort Worth is well documented in photographs, but in many photographs Vinson has moved beyond documentation to a more intimate, personal view of the city, looking for dramatic light and compelling visual design, focusing on architectural details and graphic possibilities not obvious at a casual glance. He used to tell students that you can't get too close to a subject.

While most of the photographs in this collection focus on Fort Worth, Vinson, who lived in Childress as a small child, is also drawn to rural or small-town subjects and includes here pictures taken on weekend drives to small communities in North and West Texas.



About the Author



Phil Vinson was a reporter/photographer for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for several years before opening his own photography business. In the 1990s he joined the faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington. Now retired and living on Fort Worth's East Side, he and his wife still spend weekends driving around the city and surrounding countryside so he can continue making photographs.
Dimensions (Overall): 11.4 Inches (H) x 8.6 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.85 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 108
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: United States
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Theme: State & Local, West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Street Date: August 8, 2008
TCIN: 94450241
UPC: 9780875653709
Item Number (DPCI): 247-11-4246
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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