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1979
Book
of Days
PUBLISHER: Laguna Gloria Art Museum
EDITORS: Gene Binder, Ave
Bonar, Roy Flukinger
DUOTONES: Helmer Johnson at Powell Offset,
Austin
PRINTER: Gene Powell, Powell
Offset, Austin
DESIGN: Danny Schweers
DEDICATION: Wess Comeau, Nov. 23, 1945–March
19, 1978. Wess was gentle, caring, light-hearted
and intensely human. In everything, especially
his photography, he tried to look beyond what
the eye presented or what others took for granted.
Although Wess used many different photographic
techniques, all of his work had a unity of
purpose: to portray something of the spiritual
forces at work behind ordinary material existence.
Although he died young, by no means was his
promise unfulfilled. Just as Wess’s photographs
are of those forces that give montion to matter,
so our memory of him is of that vital force
that moves every artist to search and to dream,
to find and to succeed.
EDITORIAL OVERSIGHT: Ave Bonar and Randy
Ehrlich.
CALLIGRAPHY: Kathleen Hogue.
NOTES: Each date
in this calendar was accompanied by a description
of an event in Austin’s
history, for the most part relying on documents
at the Austin History Center compiled by researchers
employed by the Works Progress Administration
in the 1930s. Historical research by Danny
Schweers, Carol Hust Schweers, and Paul
and Julia Murray. Calendar research by Carol
Schweers and Linda Baruch. Additional thanks
to J.R. Compton, Keith Dannemiller, Margaret
Harman, Robert Haslanger, Mary Kaye Hemenway,
Walter Lenoir, Mark Mitchell, Bill
Newton, Jennifer Nosler-Comeau,
Jane Parsons, Lauren Piperno, David Pugh, Ray
Reece, Jennifer Ross, Bill Russell, Andy Sieverman,
and John Timmons. Thanks to the staff members
of Laguna Gloria Art Museum: Patti Candelari,
Sandra Gregor, Art Little, Laurence Miller,
Randy Puckett, Judith Sims, Susan Stone, Jana
Strauss, Gini Terpening, Danh Tran, Mark Welch,
and Susan Ybarra. Thanks to City of Austin
staff members: Jo Lynn Hoffman, Sandra Matney,
Dorothy Nan McLean, and Bob Sweeney. This book
was made possible by grants and support by:
Austin Arts Commission and the City of Austin,
Louise O’Connor, Austin magazine and
AustinGuide, William Broyles, Custom Photographic
Labs, Pounds Photographic Labs, Capitol Camera,
Holleman Color Labs, Austin Cold Type, The
Darkroom, First Federal Savings of Austin,
and Spiral Binding.
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