Richard Avedon’s Trailblazing Portrait of the American West

Revisiting the groundbreaking 1985 exhibition that exploded myths of American identity.

Shrouded in mythos, majesty, and mystery, the American West has become a folkloric landscape rooted in a national obsession with individual exceptionalism. Here, bootstrappers, prospectors, explorers, outlaws, lawmen, settlers, and colonizers fueled ...

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