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Title: In the American West by Richard Avedon ISBN: 0810911051 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: September, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00

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Average Customer Rating: 4.86

Rating: 5
Summary: It's on the shelf with my other good ones
Comment: My son gave me this book years ago as a birthday gift. It's not one that I look at every day. In truth , sometimes years go by before I pick it up again. Always, the images beg to define their stories. I often wonder as the years pass, what has happened to those portrayed. Only once, as I recall, did Avedon return to shoot the subject twice. That image is of a young cowboy. Avedon initially captures the hope and wonder of what his future holds. The second image taken but a few years later already shows much of that hope diminished with the realization of this is all there is. Perhaps I read too much into it, but I think that's the power of the images. We read individually into them and perhaps with more than a little bias come to our own conclusions. Anytime I need a shot of creativity to look at our world and the people and stories within so that I too can try to capture on film, or now digitally, I need look no further than Avedon's book.

Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing photographs
Comment: When I was a teen in the early eighties, I went to see the exhibit of these photos in SF, CA with my mother. From what I understand, Richard Avedon traveled the American West, photographing people that he came across in his everyday travels. They weren't beautiful supermodels, they weren't made up actors, they were real live people. I remember like it was yesterday, the huge black and white photos included the tired and haggard teen girl on the cover, a snake handler holding a disemboweled rattlesnake, a grizzled and mean looking prisoner with jail tattoos, insane asylum patients with wild eyed stares, scruffy drifters and many more. After the show, I talked my mom into buying the book for me, and took it home, where it's been a prized posession ever since. Every time anyone comes over to my home and checks it out, it always opens up a discussion. When it went out of print, I know that I was disappointed as folks always wanted a copy after seeing my own, and I think it's great that it's been re-issued. If you are a fan of photography that captures the stark realism of the human spirit, don't miss out on this book.

Rating: 4
Summary: I love this book!
Comment: I first saw this book back in 1985 when it first was published and I will never forget the menacing stare of James Kimberlin, drifter, in Hobbs, New Mexico. A very powerful set of images. Almost made me want to become a drifter myself, wild and free on the American plain. Carry me back to the lone prarie, where the coyotes howl and the wind blows free. Best photo book ever.