Forty years on, Richard Avedon’s iconic series “In the American West" still resonates with the United States’ current ...

New York fashion photographer Richard Avedon says the ”mythology of Gary ... carny, James Story, coal miner, and Carol Crittendon, bartender. Avedon`s answers, like his pictures, reveal an ...

For six years beginning in 1979, photographer Laura Wilson assisted Richard Avedon on his landmark ... Whether he was considering a cowboy or a coal miner, Avedon would always ask, “Is ...

Coal Miner, Somerset, Colorado, 12/18/79." In others, such as "Richard Garber, Drifter, Interstate 15, Provo, Utah, 8/20/80," it seems like the vastness of interstellar space in negative. Avedon ...

151.8 x 117.5 cm. (59.8 x 46.3 in.) About Face (San Francisco: Pier 24 Photography, 2014), pp. 147 and 154-5 (this triptych) Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography (San Francisco: Pier 24 ...

Richard Avedon’s last major exhibition before ... in which drifters, clowns, and coal miners sat alongside art luminaries like Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon and performers such as Janis Joplin ...

20.5 x 16.5 cm. (8.1 x 6.5 in.) ...

Richard Avedon‘s last major photo series, “In the American West,” a landmark 1985 book and exhibition, was a massive undertaking. Ruedi Hofmann, who served as the artist’s master printer ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 60 photographs by Richard Avedon ... "In the American West," photos of anonymous people like a coal miner covered in soot. "Portrait photographers had a job to ...