Richard Avedon: In the American West Jan Steen Taking its title from Ballard’s

Taking its title from Ballard’s visionary 1973 novel

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Oscar Murillo’s Arepas y Tamales printed shirts feature emblems from drawings the artist collected from schoolchildren’s desks around the world for his Frequencies project

Richard Avedon: In the American West Jan Steen Taking its title from Ballard’sThis 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