![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1989, the Center for Creative Photography worked with the photographer to establish the Richard Avedon Archive, which today retains the largest institutional holdings of his work spanning his career in photography. The works in it were selected by Avedon himself, together with Amon Carter Senior Curator of Photographs John Rohrbach, to mark its twentieth anniversary of the original exhibition. The current exhibition presents a major portion of the works from the 1985 staging of In the American West. Avedons oversized photographs of working class westerners have become icons in photographic history, as capable of generating debate today as when they were first exhibited. ![]() Assertive, controversial, and graphically striking, these portraits generated extensive (and at times, heated) discussion about the nature of portraiture, photography, and prevailing stereotypes of the region. A restaged version of this monumental exhibition just opened at the Center for Creative Photography on the University of Arizona campus, and remain on view until January 1, 2007.Īvedon traveled for five years, making portraits of ordinary people living and working in the Western United States. The project opened to widespread acclaim and was, in fact, one of the most highly attended exhibitions in the museums history. TUCSON, AZ.- In 1985, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas organized the exhibition In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon. ![]()
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