Avedon’s West Portraits Return, Reframed for a New Generation

Forty years after Richard Avedon’s In the American West captured miners, drifters, farmers and other overlooked workers, his granddaughter Caroline Avedon curates Facing West at Gagosian London to reframe the landmark portraits for a younger audience, foregrounding the people behind America’s image and reflecting on the work’s ongoing social relevance and its controversial reception.