In The American West

[Pieter12]

For any Avedon enthusiasts in Paris, the Fondation Henri Cartier Bresson is restaging Avedon's iconic In The American West exhibition, along with a reissue of the book. https://www.henricartierbresson.org...medium=email&utm_term=0_-140a9e84ca-183717381

 

[DREW WILEY]

If they want "Western" authenticity, they should re-stage an actual Texas cattle feed lot in Paris too.

 

[koraks]

There's a small chance we'll be in Paris later this year when the show is still on. I'll try to remember this if we do end up going there. Thanks for posting.

If they want "Western" authenticity, they should re-stage an actual Texas cattle feed lot in Paris too.

D'you want some extra vinegar with that? Sheesh.

 

[Alex Benjamin]

One of my favorite photo books. Wish I could go to Paris and see the actual prints.

Thanks for posting.

 

[warden]

What a treat it would be to see that in person!

 

[Pieter12]

I have seen a handful of the original large prints at Gagosian in the past. Quite impressive and oddly, emotional.

 

[David Brown]

At the Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth). (Where the work lives.) https://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/richard-avedon-carter. May 18 - August 10, 2025

 

[Pieter12]

At the Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth). (Where the work lives.) https://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/richard-avedon-carter. May 18 - August 10, 2025

Wow. That's amazing. Since the two shows will overlap for part of the time and the Amon Carter show is only 40 prints out of 103 while the Fondation HHCB is the entire series, there is a bit of a different experience to be had. Reading the Paris announcements, it looks like the prints shown there will be the ones used to make the book, so none of the giant prints will be there. It also seems like both shows will have a lot of additional material documenting the series, but Houston will have the Laura Wilson shots, not Paris.

 

[Arthurwg]

..... but Houston will have the Laura Wilson shots, not Paris.

I guess you mean Fort. Worth.

 

[Pieter12]

I guess you mean Fort. Worth.

Yeah. Texas.

 

[Richard Man]

Would love to see the work, but not TX.

 

[Arthurwg]

Would love to see the work, but not TX.

My state, NM, is adjacent to TX, but I always feel apprehensive when going there.

 

[BCM]

Seriously? Texas is perfectly safe. I've raised 2 kids here and have traveled extensively all over the state for 50+ years. We are home to three of the largest cities in the US so don't listen to whatever news stations you are seeing. Go see the Amon Carter and have some BBQ.

 

[Richard Man]

Not going to respond lest the mods shut it down, but let's just say the concern is real for certain groups of people.

 

[BradS]

I will not go to Texas either.

 

[pentaxuser]

I will not go to Texas either.

I might if it were still possible to see Bronco tearing across the Texas plain

pentaxuser

 

[Pieter12]

I might if it were still possible to see Bronco tearing across the Texas plain

pentaxuser

As in the SUV?

 

[pentaxuser]

As in the SUV?

SUV! I take that as an insult to that great Western genre - namely the TV Westerns of the 1950s and 60s. I missed very few of the "Bronco Layne" series starring Ty Hardin He even was a Texan apart from the first six months of his life

We even called a 1960s soccer player after his TV name

pentaxuser

 

[Alex Benjamin]

This thread went south.

Literally.

 

[DREW WILEY]

I've been to Dallas once on a business trip along with my boss at the time. He darn near ended up in an ambulance from all the cigarette smoke in the restaurants and hotel lobbies. I mean, if the rest of Texas is like that, I'm be surprised to see anyone over 30 still alive - two cigarettes in the same mouth, another in a nostril, and at least one in each ear. It sure ain't the West. At least the real cowboys I grew up with smoked only one raunchy Old Gold at a time. They called 'em "coffin nails".

Myself, I almost went into shock from the "nothingness," looking out the highrise hotel window. No mountains, no forests, no nuthin'. What do people do there on weekends? But they were friendly. Just don't lean on a handrail in the convention center stairway. It's liable to fall right off. I've seen little pictures on a wall better supported.

 

[BCM]

I've been to Dallas once on a business trip along with my boss at the time. He darn near ended up in an ambulance from all the cigarette smoke in the restaurants and hotel lobbies. I mean, if the rest of Texas is like that, I'm be surprised to see anyone over 30 still alive - two cigarettes in the same mouth, another in a nostril, and at least one in each ear. It sure ain't the West. At least the real cowboys I grew up with smoked only one raunchy Old Gold at a time. They called 'em "coffin nails".

Myself, I almost went into shock from the "nothingness," looking out the highrise hotel window. No mountains, no forests, no nuthin'. What do people do there on weekends? But they were friendly. Just don't lean on a handrail in the convention center stairway. It's liable to fall right off. I've seen little pictures on a wall better supported.

Good Lord. What year was that? 1960? Most of Texas is non-smoking in public places and in most bars. Some of you need to get out more.

 

[Mike Lopez]

Good Lord. What year was that? 1960? Most of Texas is non-smoking in public places and in most bars. Some of you need to get out more.

I was wondering whether Drew’s trip to Dallas was perhaps before the JFK assassination.

 

[DREW WILEY]

No. It was exactly when a high Enron executive turned up dead in his car with an alleged suicide note, and the investigation was summarily concluded right then and there. When Kennedy was assassinated, I was only 11. That's the only way I can remember the date - a whole other round of Who Dunnit theories. I generally hated business trips with two exceptions : we were allowed to spend as much as we wanted on meals (like the best steak houses etc.), and I always booked window seats on flights, and got to look down on intervening topography in the West where I'd traveled and backpacked. So much of Nevada and the Southwest is absolutely gorgeous from the air. Too bad typical airliner windows are too fogged up for decent photography.