A black-and-white portrait photograph of two White men wearing dirty clothes and baseball caps standing next to each other.

Stan Riley, James Law, oil field workers, Albany, Texas, 6/10/79

Richard Avedon (1923-2004)

Date

1979, printed 1985
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 56 1/4 x 45 1/2 in.
Mount: 59 3/4 x 47 1/8 in.
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

P1985.28.61
Copyright

© The Richard Avedon Foundation

Avedon in Texas: Selections from In the American West

February 25–July 2, 2017

This exhibition of Richard Avedon’s evocative portraits of the people of the American West, commissioned by the Carter, uses the subjects’ faces, clothes, and postures to convey not only their hard living but the full embrace of human existence.

Location: Off view

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