VISAGES DE L'OUEST

Richard Avedon
VISAGES DE L'OUEST

Photographs: Richard Avedon

Publisher: éditons du Chêne

172 pages

Year: 1986

ISBN: 2 85108 440 2

Comments: Hardcover, 38,4 x 28,4 cm, b&w photographs. With the original acetate cover. First French edition, 1986. In very good condition other than one page stained see picture for details.

"The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and its director, Mitchell A. Wilder, had built up a unique collection of photographs depicting the West in the 19th and 20th centuries. After seeing a portrait of Wilbur Powell, a ranch foreman, which was part of a series of photographs taken on 4 July 1978 in Ennis, Montana, Wilder suggested that I continue this work under the auspices of the museum. For five summers, I would work on an exhibition that was to open at the Amon Carter Museum in the autumn of 1985. Thereafter, the original negatives and a series of prints would remain permanently in the museum's archives. When Wilder died in April 1979, the museum staff continued to support my project."

- Richard Avedon, exerpt from the introduction, translated from French