Photography: Three reasons to see the Richard Avedon exhibition at the Fondation Cartier-Bresson
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The cover (center) and two photos from the book "In the American West," by American photographer Richard Avedon, presented at the exhibition at the Fondation Cartier-Bresson in Paris.
Commissioned by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art from photographer Richard Avedon, the 1985 book In the American West celebrates the American West. Forty years later, the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation is paying a sober and magnificent tribute to him in an exhibition that will also be a landmark.
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I subscribeThe 110 black-and-white images are remarkably simple. The backdrops, devoid of decor, explode, immaculate. Only faces and bodies matter. The fixed gazes, straight ahead, unblinking, plunge us into our era. Dirty, bruised, tired, deformed, dressed-up bodies, marked by the ravages of time and work, are the lot of this exploration.
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