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This elegant coffee-table volume displays more than 100 color photographs by architectural photographer Mike Osborne, providing a distinctive contemporary portrait of the five mission complexes, now partly restored, partly still in ruins. One, better known as the Alamo, is a memorial to its defenders in 1836. The four others comprise San Antonio Missions National Historical Park. Each section begins with a dramatic 19th-century image. Osborne’s color photographs range from interior views of the Alamo to a mariachi mass at San José to a composite of rifle portholes in Espada’s bastion, with other dramatic views of the missions and related landmarks in between.
Price: $28.95
Pages: 112
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Imprint: Maverick Books
Publication Date:
01 January 2010
Trim Size: 12.00 X 9.00 in
ISBN: 9781595347107
Format: Paperback
Celebrated San Antonio historian Lewis F. Fisher, whose Maverick Publishing Company was acquired by Trinity University Press in 2015, has published forty-five books on topics ranging from San Antonio’s Spanish heritage to its urban development, and from the military to sports, architecture, and multicultural legends. A former member of the San Antonio River Commission, he has written numerous books himself, including Chili Queens, Hay Wagons, and Fandangos: The Spanish Plazas in Frontier San Antonio, winner of the 2015 San Antonio Conservation Society Publication Award, and Saving San Antonio: The Preservation of a Heritage, republished in a second edition, and Maverick: The American Name That Became a Legend. Fisher has received numerous local, state, and national writing awards and was named a Texas Preservation Hero by the Conservation Society in 2014.
— Lewis F. Fisher
Mike Osborne, based in Austin, Texas, studied photography at Stanford University and at the University of Texas at Austin. More recently he has been a Fulbright fellow in Taiwan and a resident artist at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany. His architectural photographs have appeared in San Antonio Portrait, published in 2005, and in national and international publications.
Father David Garcia, formerly rector of San Antonio's San Fernando Cathedral, is Director, Old Spanish Missions for the Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio.
— Lewis F. Fisher
Mike Osborne, based in Austin, Texas, studied photography at Stanford University and at the University of Texas at Austin. More recently he has been a Fulbright fellow in Taiwan and a resident artist at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany. His architectural photographs have appeared in San Antonio Portrait, published in 2005, and in national and international publications.
Father David Garcia, formerly rector of San Antonio's San Fernando Cathedral, is Director, Old Spanish Missions for the Catholic Archdiocese of San Antonio.