12 APRIL 1986, page 35

Portrait Of An Unseen Land

David Sexton IN THE AMERICAN WEST by Richard Avedon Thames & Hudson, f40 R ichard Avedon began his photo- graphic career taking ID shots when he was in the Merchant Marine......

Not Always Amusing Or Peculiar

Anthony Blond WHAT'S THE JOKE?: A STUDY OF JEWISH HUMOUR THROUGH THE AGES by Chaim Bermant Weidenfeld, £12.95 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous. (Abraham......