

Richard Avedon
Edward Roop, Coal Miner, Paonia, Colorado, 1979
Gelatin silver print mounted to aluminium
56 3/8 x 45 1/8 in.
Edition of 6
© The Richard Avedon Foundation
Richard Avedon is one of the most important portrait photographers of the 20th Century. By the end of his career, he had photographed some of the most important artists, intellectuals, celebrities and icons of the age as well as working class Americans for one of his most important personal projects ‘The American West’.