Richard Avedon: In the American West Jan Steen the plate illustrates an isolated

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The exhibition included recent paintings in which the artist continues to meditate on the melancholy of the Psycho Spaghetti Westerns in complex pictures that conflate his signature elements with the visual devices

Richard Avedon: In the American West Jan Steen the plate illustrates an isolatedThis fortieth anniversary edition of Richard Avedons iconic In the American West is a lush reissue of his legendary book, originally published by Harry Abrams in 1985. Avedons landmark seriescommissioned in 1979 by the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texasis the result of a five year project that saw him travel through twenty one states, photographing more than a thousand ordinary people against a seamless white backdrop. Avoiding the landscape