Richard Avedon's "In the American West" is a seminal work in photographic art, originally published in 1985 alongside an exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The book is being reissued for a 20th-anniversary exhibition at the same museum. Spanning five years, Avedon traveled across the American West to capture the lives of its everyday people, including ranch workers, drifters, and gamblers. The collection features 120 black-and-white photographs, Avedon's insights on portraiture, a project journal by Laura Wilson, and a foreword by John Rohrbach, marking a significant event in photography.
