As well printed as Avedon's books are, the larger than life prints
shown at exhibitions are extraordinary.
Of course this is true of the work of most photographers.
I need to get to more shows . . .
ScottGee1
On 2/13/07, Tim Hughes <timhughes@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> At Stanford University:
>
> In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon
>
> Opening of the 20th Anniversary Tour of Richard Avedon's In the American
> West. The Cantor Arts
> Center at Stanford University will be holding the exihibition from February
> 14-May 6, 2007. From
> the exhibit description:
>
> "Richard Avedon was already world famous for elevating fashion photography to
> an art form and for
> his insightful portraits of men and women of accomplishment, when the Amon
> Carter Museum's first
> director, Mitchell A. Wilder, saw Avedon's 1978 portrait of a Montana ranch
> foreman. Wilder asked
> the artist to make portraits of others across the American West under the
> sponsorship of the Amon
> Carter Museum. From 1979 to 1984, Avedon traveled through 13 states and 189
> towns from Texas to
> Idaho, exposing 17,000 sheets of film through his 8-by-10-inch Deardorff view
> camera.
>
>
> Focusing on the rural West, Avedon visited ranches and rodeos, but he also
> went to truck stops,
> oil fields, and slaughterhouses. Rather than playing to the western myths of
> grandeur and space,
> he sought out people whose appearance and life circumstances were the
> antithesis of mythical
> images of the ruggedly handsome cowboy, dashing outdoor adventurer, or
> beautiful pioneer wife. The
> subjects he chose for the portraits were ordinary people, coping daily with
> personal cycles of
> boom and bust."
>
> http://museum.stanford.edu/news_room/Avedon.html
>
> Location
>
> Cordura Hall 100
> 210 Panama Street
> Stanford, CA 94309
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=210+panama+street,+stanford,+ca
>
> Cordura Hall is on the corner of Campus Drive and Panama Street. Park in the
> lot across the
> street. Cordura 100 is next to the courtyard between Ventura Hall and Cordura
> Hall.
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