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The Galveston That Was (Paperback)
Howard Barnstone; Photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ezra Stoller; Afterword by Peter Brink
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In a 1963 novel, Edna Ferber compared the city of Galveston to Miss
Havisham, the grey, mournful abandoned bride of Dickens' Great
Expectations. A thriving port city in the nineteenth century,
Galveston suffered catastrophe in the twentieth as a deadly
hurricane and shifting economics dropped a pall over its waterfront
and Victorian mansions. Originally conceived as a requiem for the
faded city, The Galveston That Was (developed by the Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, and funded by Jean and Dominique de Menil) instead
helped resurrect the city. Architect-author Howard Barnstone,
renowned portrait photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, and
architect-photographer Ezra Stoller captured the soul of the city
in The Galveston That Was and as a result, inspired a major and
successful effort to restore Galveston's historic architectural
treasures. Many of the buildings pictured in the book have since
been restored, and the pace of demolition slowed dramatically after
the book's initial publication. In 1994, Rice University Press, in
collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and George and
Cynthia Mitchell, published an updated edition of the book. This
printing of the book, now under the Texas A&M University Press
imprint, contains the text annotations and updates, plus Peter H.
Brink's afterword, that were added to the 1994 edition.
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