Hill country women

by Steven Schwartzman

"In this book I've combined the natural beauty of the Texas Hill Country with the beauty of some of the women who live in Austin. Both the people and the places vary quite a lot. A few of the women are artists, one works in a bank, a couple work for the state government, one is a photographer, one a lawyer, one makes videotapes, and one even sold flowers on streetcorners when I met her. As for the places, probably the most exotic one that appears here is an abandoned quarry outside the tiny town of Cedar Park where great fossil-shelled blocks of limestone are heaped into huge pyramids." The book is illustrated with 14 pairs of photographs taken on infrared film using a Stereo Realist camera from the 1950s. When looked at with a stereo viewer, each side-by-side pair appears three-dimensional, and the infrared glow adds to the other-worldliness.