A massive project by photographer Richard Avedon gets a reprise.
Unique among fashion and portrait photographers, Richard Avedon built an enduring legacy. No matter who stood in front of his camera — be it the eternally glamorous Marilyn Monroe or a weather-worn coal miner — there is always a hidden strength and stoicism in his portraits, an elevation of ordinary beauty in ordinary people., a rare glimpse of 13 photographs from his acclaimed project “In the American West.” The genesis of “West” came about serendipitously.
“The three were very bright, quick and decisive,” Laura Wilson recalls. “Avedon flew to Dallas to see the Amon Carter Museum, and he was favorably impressed. We initially thought it would be a one-year project underwritten by the museum, but when Richard Avedon hired me to work for him, and we went into the West, he realized it was a much bigger and more complicated subject, and he wanted more time.
As 2023 is the 100th-year celebration of Avedon’s birth, the Carter has carefully curated 13 of the original series from storage, juxtaposing the black and white images with classic sculptures and paintings among the museum’s collection galleries.
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