Debbie McClendon, carney, Thermopolis, Wyoming, 7-29-81

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RICHARD AVEDON (1923-2004)
Debbie McClendon, carney, Thermopolis, Wyoming, 7-29-81
tirage argentique, monté sur aluminium, tiré en 1985
signé et numéroté '2/6' à l'encre, cachets de copyright du photographe, 'Tous droits réservés', titre, date et édition (au dos du montage)
118.7 x 95.8cm. (46.5 x 37.5in.)

Literature

Avedon, In the American West, Harry N. Abrams, 1985, n.p.; Livingston et Gopnik, Evidence, 1944-1994, Random House, 1994, p. 163

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Lot Essay

I think the white background means many things to me. I hate to use big words - but if I have a feeling about life, it is an existential feeling. I think we live in a kind of a void; that there is nothing before and there is nothing after. And the white for me represents that void. It makes people symbolic of themselves. You see only what's written on their faces.

RICHARD AVEDON

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