Richard Avedon: In the American West Jan Steen while the cover features collaged

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This book was published on the occasion of the public installation of Alexander Calder’s Flying Dragon (1975) at Place Vendôme in Paris for the 2021 edition of FIAC Hors les Murs

This publication features extensive reproductions of the forty-six exhibited works

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Richard Avedon: In the American West Jan Steen while the cover features collagedThis 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