Excerpted from the <Night Photography blog by Andy Frazer:

We interrupt our regularly-scheduled night photography posts for an important announcement…

… a copy of Avedon at Work in the American West by Laura Wilson… re-sparked my interest in Richard Avedon and portraiture. This morning I noticed that this show is actually on display, as we speak, just up the road at Stanford University (near Palo Alto, CA).

The show, titled In the American West, Photographs by Richard Avedon, is at the Cantor Center for the Arts (on the Stanford campus) through May 6th, 2007. And the best part… it’s free!
– Andy Frazer [Night Photography blog by Andy Frazer]

Wow! I had no idea. Stanford is “just up the road” from me as well. (I’m a faculty member at De Anza College in Cupertino.) I also was given a copy of this Avedon book recently and am fascinated by this project and the images that came from it.

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