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Subject: [OM] Re: OT : Richard Avedon Tour Photo Exhibition, in Bay Area
From: hiwayman@xxxxxxx (Walt Wayman)
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:45:06 +0000
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

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
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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