Once Upon a Time in the West1988–2004
We look at the West as a place that's inexhaustible — and all those things that we romanticize are still there, only now in sparse amounts. Some of the photographs I'm working on now are like romantic epitaphs.Peter de Lory
Begun in 1988 and worked through 2004, Once Upon a Time in the West adopted the triptych form in 1989 to hold the American West's mythologies and ideologies in a single frame. Fifty-four pieces, made over sixteen years, that read the West the way Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and Cormac McCarthy wrote it: as a place we keep dreaming even as it disappears.