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Richard Avedon:
In the American West
Title: Petra Alvarado, factory worker, El Paso, Texas, on her birthday, 4/22/82
Photograph by: Richard Avedon (American 1923-2004).
©1980, Estate of Richard Avedon,
Courtesy Amon Carter Museum. P1985.28.14.
Collection Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona
Richard Avedon took photography into the fine art realm beginning with his 1960s striking psychedelic portraits of the Beatles. Then he
created portraits of drifters, miners, cowboys and others from the western United States
for a best-selling book and traveling
exhibit In the American West. That series is considered an important moment in the development of portrait photography.
Images from Avedon's, In the American West, series are part of an exhibit at the Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. It is the first
time these images have been displayed together in 20 years.
The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, commissioned the exhibit and was the first to exhibit it in 1985. Richard Avedon personally helped select the
seventy-eight most compelling prints, and shortly before his death in October 2004 the photographer oversaw the In the American West
installation design.
Title: Allen Silvy, drifter, Route 93, Chloride, Nevada, 12/14/80
Photograph by: Richard Avedon (American 1923-2004).
©1980, Estate of Richard Avedon,
Courtesy Amon Carter Museum. P1985.28.41
Collection Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona
In the American West is Richard Avedon's magnum opus. This is an exhibit not to be missed.
Richard Avedon: In the American West
Centre for Creative Photography:
October 21, 2006 - January 14, 2007
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