All
The King's Men
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In late 1987 the
Limited Editions
Club asked if I would like to provide photographic illustrations for a
new edition of Robert Penn Warren’s classic American novel, All The
King’s Men. I realized this would be a very difficult assignment: I was
being asked to illustrate a work of imagination, set in the mid-1930s,
with photographs that would be taken over half a century later. This is
easy to do if you’re making a movie, but it is very complicated with
straight photographs, with no computer manipulation. I still jumped at
the opportunity to collaborate with Robert Penn Warren.
I traveled
many thousands of
miles throughout Louisiana and Texas in 1988 and 1989 to get the dozen
images that were used to make up the limited edition book and gravure
portfolio. Along the way there were many other wonderful photographic
opportunities that didn’t work for the book, but were exciting on their
own. I’ve combined all the photographs from these southern trips under
the general heading All The King’s Men.
Please click on the images below for a larger view.
