{"product_id":"avedon-at-work-in-the-american-west-hardcover","title":"Avedon at Work: In the American West - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLaura Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eLarry McMurtry\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternationally acclaimed for his portraits of powerful and accomplished people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers--but 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe resulting 1985 exhibition and book, \u003ci\u003eIn the American West, \u003c\/i\u003e was a milestone in American photography and Avedon's 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 often-ignored people who work at hard, uncelebrated jobs. Making no apologies for shattering stereotypes of the West and Westerners, Avedon said, \"I'm looking for a new definition of a photographic portrait. I'm looking for people who are surprising--heartbreaking--or beautiful in a terrifying way. Beauty that might scare you to death until you acknowledge it as part of yourself.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotographer Laura Wilson worked with Avedon during the six years he was making \u003ci\u003eIn the American West.\u003c\/i\u003e In \u003ci\u003eAvedon at Work, \u003c\/i\u003e she presents a unique photographic record of his creation of this masterwork--the first time a major photographer has been documented in great depth over an extended period of time. She combines images she made during the photographic sessions with entries from her journal to show Avedon's working methods, his choice of subjects, his creative process, and even his experiments and failures. Also included are a number of Avedon's finished portraits, as well as his own comments and letters from some of the subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAvedon at Work\u003c\/i\u003e adds a new dimension to our understanding of one of the twentieth century's most significant series of portraits. For everyone interested in the creative process it confirms that, in Laura Wilson's words, \"much as all these photographs may appear to be moments that just occurred, they are finally, in varying degrees, works of the imagination.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaura Wilson is a photographer whose previous books are \u003ci\u003eHutterites of Montana\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e Watt Matthews of Lambshead.\u003c\/i\u003e Her work has also appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e the\u003ci\u003e New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLondon's Sunday Times Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in Dallas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 132\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 11.42 x 9.24 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2003\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51754122248480,"sku":"9780292701939","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/47090a0f2b6c5870d3d183d11a67e4f8.webp?v=1780033870","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/avedon-at-work-in-the-american-west-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}