In the American West 40th Anniversary Edition

<B>An exquisitely produced new publication of <I>In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon,</I> a landmark project of classic American photography </B><BR/><BR/>First published by Abrams in 1985 in conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, the book is being reissued on its 40th anniversary in 2025.<BR/><BR/> Richard Avedon was the greatest American photographer of his generation. For <I>In the American West, </I>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.