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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