After the gold rush: Twenty-five years ago, Richard Avedon photographed the real American west. His subjects despised him - but his images are more powerful than ever.
From the website: Very little has changed today. Flames of resentment flare when the region is portrayed as anything but down-home, clean, decent, pioneer-spirited whatever. As one elderly rancher put it a few years ago, "reality has never been much use out here". Avedon's images of the region will be powerful a century after John Wayne has become as quaint as a butter firkin.
At the Amon Carter Museum
Laura Wilson's Avedon at Work in the American West
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