In the American West - Richard Avedon

AVEDON, Richard. 
In the American West. 
First edition. Folio. Unpaginated with b&w plates throughout. Dark tan cloth with pictoral onlay to front and rear with acetate dustwrapper. New York: Abrams, 1985. 
A little water damage to the upper portion of a few pages at the back of the publication.

An iconic, powerful work by Avedon. In the American West was a 6-year project that culminated in the exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, and portrayed blue collar westerners in eighties America- ranch workers, roustabouts, bar girls, drifters, and gamblers. “Beginning in the spring of 1979, I spent the summer months traveling in the West, going to truck stops, stockyards walking through the crowds at a fair, looking for faces I wanted to photograph. The structure of the project was clear to me almost from the start and each new portrait had to find its place in that structure. As the work progressed, the portraits themselves began to reveal connections of all kinds- psychological, sociological, physical, familial- among people who had never met.”