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in the American West
By Wilson, Laura
- ISBN
- 978-0-29270-193-9
- Publisher
- Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2003.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on January 1, 2004
Known at the time as a preeminent fashion and portrait photographer, Richard Avedon was commissioned in 1978 by the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, TX, to document life in the American West. The result was an exhibition of 123 life-size photographs mounted at the Amon Carter and a book called In the American West, 1979-1984. Wilson, who would later produce her own books, Hutterites of Montana and Watt Matthews of Lambshead, was ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
