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In The American West

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

DREW WILEY said:
If they want "Western" authenticity, they should re-stage an actual Texas cattle feed lot in Paris too.
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D'you want some extra vinegar with that? Sheesh.
 
One of my favorite photo books. Wish I could go to Paris and see the actual prints.

Thanks for posting.
 
I have seen a handful of the original large prints at Gagosian in the past. Quite impressive and oddly, emotional.
 
David Brown said:
At the Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth). (Where the work lives.) https://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/richard-avedon-carter. May 18 - August 10, 2025
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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.
 
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.
 
Not going to respond lest the mods shut it down, but let's just say the concern is real for certain groups of people.
 
I will not go to Texas either.
 
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Pieter12 said:
As in the SUV?
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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
 
This thread went south.

Literally.
 
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.
 
BCM said:
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.
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I was wondering whether Drew’s trip to Dallas was perhaps before the JFK assassination.
 
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.
 
David Brown said:
At the Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth). (Where the work lives.) https://www.cartermuseum.org/exhibitions/richard-avedon-carter. May 18 - August 10, 2025
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I'm hoping to make it over there in the next couple weeks. I peeked in behind the dividers when I was there a couple weeks ago. I saw a handful of them when they brought them back out two years ago. It will be nice to see them all side by side this time.
The camera store I work for partnered with the museum on their Second Thursday event this month and I got to take (unfortunately not 8x10s) digital images in the style of Avedon for patrons who chose to have their photograph made. It was fun to be a part of all that.
 
It is a shame it won't be the complete show, only 40 out of the 124 original. I wonder if they will be showing any of the large prints?
 
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