Isn't amazing how some photographers' exhibits make you want to go out and
shoot a few dozen rolls - others just make you want to burn your camera ...
Jamie
Fort Myers, FL
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Walt Wayman
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 10:45 AM
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Subject: [OM] Re: OT : Richard Avedon Tour Photo Exhibition, in Bay Area
Yeah, I recall going to an Ansel Adams exhibit at the High Museum in Atlanta
some years ago, and I was just blown away. Almost made me give up
photography because I knew I could never be that good.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
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From: ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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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