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Avedon at Work In the American West

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ISBN-10: 0292701934

ISBN-13: 9780292701939

Edition: 2003

Authors: Laura Wilson, Larry McMurtry

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Internationally acclaimed for his portraits of powerful and accomplished people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the twentieth century' greatest photographersbut perhaps not the most obvious choice to create a portrait of ordinary people of the American West. Yet in 1979, the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, daringly commissioned him to do just that. The resulting 1985 exhibition and book, In the American West, was a milestone in American photography and Avedon' most important body of work. His unflinching portraits of oilfield and slaughterhouse workers, miners, waitresses, drifters, mental patients, teenagers, and others captured the unknown and…    
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Book details

List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 10/1/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 132
Size: 9.00" wide x 11.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 2.640
Language: English

Larry McMurtry, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other awards, is the author of twenty-four novels, two collections of essays, two memoirs, more than thirty screenplays, & an anthology of modern Western fiction. He lives in Archer City, Texas.

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Avedon at Work