An exquisitely produced new publication of In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon
a landmark project of classic American photography First published by Abrams in 1985 in
conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth Texas
the book is now available in this lush 40th anniversary edition. Richard Avedon was the
greatest American photographer of his generation. For In the American West he traveled for
five years meeting and photographing the ordinary people populating America’s most
extraordinary landscape. The resulting book includes 103 meticulously printed black-and-white
photographs an essay by Avedon on his working methods and portrait philosophy and a journal
of the project by Laura Wilson. The reissuing of this legendary book out of print for more
than a decade is a major publishing event in the photography world.
