Richard Avedon’s iconic portraits and a broad survey of Asian American art offer varied perspectives on the region.

The exhibition “Avedon’s West” at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth is showing 13 works from Richard Avedon’s “In the American West,” which premiered at the museum ...

New York fashion photographer Richard Avedon says the ”mythology of Gary Cooper, Willa Cather and the Marlboro Man” drew him West with a trailer, a tripod and an 8-by-10-inch view camera.

The American West of portrait photographer Richard Avedon is a disturbing vision carved on the faces and etched in the eyes of Westerners by the rugged landscape he has banished from his photographs.

Four decades after its debut at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Richard Avedon’s In the American West is back at the Fort Worth museum with a fresh perspective.Richard Avedon at the ...

Forty years on, Richard Avedon’s iconic series “In the American West" still resonates with the United States’ current political and social landscape. The New York photographer’s powerful ...

Twelve years later, we look back at the award-winning Star-Telegram photo project that chronicled the lives of several of Richard Avedon’s famous ‘In the American West’ subjects.

FORT WORTH. Three decades after portrait photographer Richard Avedon showed us Texas, maybe we are finally comfortable seeing it. From 1985, Avedon’s “In the American West” portraits remain ...

Spring 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Richard Avedon, renowned fashion and portrait photographer. As part of a national... Skip to Main Content Skip to footer ...

Richard Avedon’s book In the American West is from a project commissioned by the Amon Carter Museum and will be published this month by Harry N. Abrams.

Richard Avedon took this portrait of Oklahoma oil-field worker Red Owens in 1980 for his groundbreaking exhibition “In the American West,” a show of portraits of mostly working-class people ...