All The King's Men

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In late 1987 the Limited Editions Club asked if I would 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 the 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 and can build a set, but it is very complicated with straight photographs, and 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.