The photographer wrote about it: “Beginning in the spring of 1979 I spent the summer traveling in the West, visiting truck stops, stockyards, walking through the crowds at a fair, looking for faces I wanted to photograph. The exhibition presents 40 impressions in large format of the series “In the American West”, produced between 19, made by request of the Amon Carter Museum of Fort Worth, in Texas.
He reported the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, old slaves, pacifist marches, and patients from psychiatric hospitals victims of the napalm in Vietnam. He worked also as a press photographer to the service of the social causes and political events, which arouse the sleepy conscience of the American society of the 60’s and 70’s. His photographic job did not depend or was subject to the volatile fashion world. Avedon printed a decisive change in such genre, where the models loose the statuary aspect and go out to the streets to be photographed in night clubs, shops and coffee shops.
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