Internationally acclaimed for his portraits of powerful and accomplished people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the twentieth century\'s greatest photographers--but perhaps not the most obvious choice to create a portrait of ordinary people of the American West.
The resulting 1985 exhibition and book, In the American West, was a milestone in American pho.
Yet in 1979, the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, daringly commissioned him to do just that.
Internationally acclaimed for his portraits of powerful and accomplished people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the twentieth century\'s greatest photographers--but perhaps not the most obvious choice to create a portrait of ordinary people of the American West
