What Would Johnny Say?
Progress overtook a humble little bar on Austin’s West 5th Street, but the bar is still intact.
All posts by Jann Alexander
What’s Vanishing Next?
At a much-loved Austin coffee shop on West 6th Street in Clarksville, a young man behind the counter handed me my biscotti, looking on in astonishment at my Vanishing Austin series. “All these places are gone??” he asked, seeming a bit dumbfounded. “No no no,” I told him hastily. “This series of photographs is my […]
Is Your Austin Vanishing?
Soon a bland corporate hotel chain revered the world over for its predictability will stand in place of this textural, colorfully cheeky block of individuality, replacing the contrasts of angles and styles and skies that exist now along Congress and 2nd. A corporate logo stamped on countless buildings will take the place of the gaudy […]