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"Our best photographers, from Mathew Brady to Russell Lee, have been social historians who happened to be good with a camera. Wendy Watriss and Fred Baldwin are in this intellectual tradition. Looking at their remarkable pictures of the Texas Hill Country, one is struck by their grasp of place, time, feeling--of the impalpable core inside the social integument, which we call culture. This is a fine and deep exploration of the Texas Germans, given added depth by Lawrence Goodwyn''s essay."--Chandler DavidsonWatriss, Wendy V. is the author of 'Coming to Terms The German Hill Country of Texas' with ISBN 9780890963869 and ISBN 089096386X.
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