The Presidio, Portraits Of A Changing Landscape Monograph
The Presidio Portraits of a Changing Landscape is held in collections at the Library of Congress, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art among others.
Excerpt from the introduction:
Ms .Vargas came to live in the Presidio three years ago during this momentary pause in its long life. She started exploring the complex old post looking carefully and lovingly at its gentle sleep and slow but steady revival as a national park with a new civilian community living and working here. She has an eye for what is essential about the Presidio: the very American ordinariness of its military architecture and the strange "wildness" of its man-made forests. Many of her images put the two together in a new way, as a filigree of evocative shadows cast on the "screens" of plain white walls. They almost seem like photographs of photographs with the building walls the film on which the fugitive shadows are cast. -Randolph Delehanty Ph. D.
First edition embossed clothbound monograph of photographs. Printed on one hundred sixteen heavy weight pages with fifty-eight beautiful historic black and white images, author and introduction essays, photo dust jacket and appendix of historic buildings.