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    Out of the Smoke

    by Mark Goodman

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    MARK GOODMAN/Blurb Book #2. The September 4, 2011 Bastrop Texas Complex Fire was the worst wildfire in the state’s history. A million and a half trees burned. Thirty-five thousand acres were laid waste, a total of forty square miles—and three of those acres were mine. My house was destroyed along with 1,690 others. The estimated insured property losses reached $380 million with two thousand insurance claims filed, though ten percent of the devastated homes weren’t insured. Five thousand people evacuated. Two people died. Two hundred and fifty volunteer firefighters (sixteen crews) worked on the ground with one hundred and twenty-six engines, eight water tenders, and twenty-six dozers trying to secure the fire’s perimeter; from above, Black Hawk helicopters and heavy air tankers dumped fire retardant and water. The fire was not brought under control before October 10th, and not completely extinguished until October 29th, almost two months after it began.[Memoir by Mark Goodman and photographs by Sybil Miller.]
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    • Primary Category: Fine Art Photography
    • Additional Categories History, Biographies & Memoirs
    • Project Option: Large Square, 12×12 in, 30×30 cm
      # of Pages: 48
    • Publish Date: Nov 18, 2022
    • Language English
    • Keywords personal history, wildfire, Texas, Bastrop
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    Mark Goodman
    Austin, Texas

    Mark Goodman, a 1970 graduate of Boston University in Anthropology, studied with Minor White during a 1970 photography workshop. A year later, he attended Apeiron Workshops in Photography and began a twenty-year project documenting (photographs and audio tapes) a generation of children growing up in the nearby village of Millerton, New York. He received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1973) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1977); his photographs were featured in Aperture 19:4 (1975); exhibited in a one-person show at the George Eastman House, in Rochester, New York (1980-1981) ; and A Kind of History: Millerton, New York 1971-1991 was selected by Vince Aletti in the Village Voice as one of the Top Ten Best Photography Books of 2000. Between 1980 and 2013, he was a professor of photography at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 2005, he has published limited pigment print and Blurb books, portfolios of photographs, and personal essays.

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