William Albert Allard

It is funny while talking to the Leica rep. at LOOK3 this past summer, someone passing through spoke briefly to the rep., who I thought looked familiar. Sure enough it was Bill Allard who I last saw in 1982 at an opening for his work from  Vanishing Breed: Photographs of the Cowboy and the West 

Living in Charlottesville, Virginia - here is an excellent article on Bill Allard from Virginia Living

His current book 5 decades 

NGM video on first image below and it's positive impact;

 

all images below (c) William Albert Allard, (c) National Geographic if or when applicable