![]() ![]() I'm looking for people who are surprising-heartbreaking-or beautiful in a terrifying way. Making no apologies for shattering stereotypes of the West and Westerners, Avedon said, "I'm looking for a new definition of a photographic portrait. His unflinching portraits of oilfield and slaughterhouse workers, miners, waitresses, drifters, mental patients, teenagers, and others captured the unknown and often-ignored people who work at hard, uncelebrated jobs. The resulting 1985 exhibition and book, In the American West, was a milestone in American photography and Avedon's most important body of work. ![]() 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. ![]()
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