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William Albert Allard: Five Decades

A 48-year contributor to National Geographic, William Albert Allard is widely known for his pioneering use of color photography to capture iconic images and intimate portraits of people throughout the world.

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If there is an image of mine that captures the wide-open West that has so enraptured me, it is this one of a West Texas cowboy at full gallop.

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T. J. was 17 when I met him in a cow camp. He hadn't been doing too well at school and couldn't stay out of trouble, so his dad sent him to the IL Ranch in Nevada to be a buckaroo. Here he's got two slabs of camp-made bread slathered with peanut butter and pancake syrup.

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Henry ran cattle for 50 years on the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument desert country. He was 72. The government wanted his cattle off the land. As we moved about the house, Henry paused, lost in his thoughts, behind him a 48-star flag.

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Suspended momentarily under a vast gray sky, these children of my lifelong Hutterite friends find joy in simple pleasures. On this communal ranch the older children play ball on a makeshift field, the fenceless outfield stretching out forever.

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I've always liked bars. The glowing, jelly-colored lights and dreamlike name reflected at night beckoned me in Elko, a favorite cow town of mine.

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In Mountain City, a buckaroo had that leaving look and did so the next morning.

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Brian Morris and crew from the Circle A Ranch had just come in from a rain-scoured cattle drive when I made a portrait in a Paradise Valley bar.

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One day at Spring Creek Colony, a young Hutterite girl allowed me to photograph her as she braided her hair in a golden painterly light.

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The look on 14-year-old Stephanie Stahl's face during a baseball game at Surprise Creek has always intrigued me. What was on her mind? I took the picture a few years after one of her sisters ran away from the colony because she "wanted to be different."

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In addition to Bill Allard's work in the American West, William Albert Allard: Five Decades includes images made on his many foreign assignments.

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Basque men listening to a poet, Sare, France, 1967

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Eduardo Ramos with his dead sheep, Puno, Peru, 1981

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Girls running home, Béhorléguy, France, 1967

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Wild colt, Sable Island, Nova Scotia, 1965

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Blossoming apricot trees, Valentino Park, Turin, Italy, 2001

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Minor league spring training, Phoenix, Arizona, 1990

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Calving time, Padlock ranch, Montana, 1975

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Inca wall of 12 angles, Cusco, Peru, 1981

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Easter procession, Ayacucho, Peru, 1995

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The pigs are screaming, Ayacucho, Peru, 1995

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Woman with salted fish, Huaraz, Peru, 1981

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Ungaro models backstage, Paris, France, 1988

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Poppies, Provence, France, 1993

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Bicyclists, Ferrara, Italy, 2001

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Wash lines in Albergheria neighborhood, Palermo, Sicily, 1994

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Bird hunters, Coffee Creek, Montana, 2006

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Deer-hunting camp, Mississippi Delta, 1987

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Indigo Maynard, Missoula, Montana, 2009

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Sandrine Gataleta, Arles, France, 1993

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