'In the West': Living Portraits Avedon Would Die For

The original Austin Chronicle review from Nov. 15, 1985

"...different from folks elsewhere that an Eastern photographer named Avedon felt the need to take a bunch of pictures..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Still Life

Whether it is the coterie around the world's most famous photographer or a group of cowboys on a West Texas ranch, Laura Wilson, who peeked inside a reclusive Christian sect for her new photography book Hutterites of Montana, has an instinct for penetrating insular, tightly knit societies.

"...In 1978, Richard Avedon came to Dallas for an exhibition of his..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Books Feature by Roger Gathman

Coffeetable Books

Remembrance of Things Past

"...Avedon: The Sixtiesby Richard Avedon and Doon Arbus..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Books Feature by Margaret Moser

After a Fashion

Check it out! Stephen gets a little 'boot'y …

"...AVEDON R.I.P. "And if a day goes by without my..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser

All Done Up

"...Naked and the Dressed: 20 Years of Versace by Avedon Fashion is in a sad state of affairs. We..."

April 2, 1999 Books Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

The 'West' Shall Rise Again

A new generation creates its own take on the show that changed Austin theatre

"...types just itching for something to do; and 2) Richard Avedon. In 1985, the local theatre scene was only..."

April 7, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

News/Print

Q: Amis, Armey, Avedon? A: The 12th annual Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest. Plus: Sandra Bullock buys a book.

"...Stern and The Long Haul, photographer Laura Wilson and Avedon at Work: In the American West with the actual..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Deep in the Art

How In the West Became Deep in the Heart (of Texas)

"...the American West, a photo exhibition of Westerners by Richard Avedon. Big State director Jim Fritzler was of the..."

May 8, 1998 Screens Feature by Clay Smith

Art and Photography Books Picture This!

"...the artist's responsibility to train it. Evidence 1944-1994 by Richard Avedon (Random House, $65 hard) is everything its title..."

Dec. 15, 1995 Books Feature

The World in Vogue: People Parties Places

Time travel, history lesson, and visual feast

"...great photographers have shot for the magazine. Cecil Beaton, Richard Avedon, Alexander Liberman, Horst P. Horst, Irving Penn, Helmut..."

Nov. 27, 2009 Books Feature by Anne Harris

Two for the Road

Larry McMurtry's New Books Continue His Journey

"...Western realist has its origin in his writing on Richard Avedon's 1985 photographic blockbuster In the American West for..."

Aug. 4, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Deep in the Heart (Of Texas)

"...as a creative reaction to a famous exhibit of Richard Avedon photographs, which the Big State players believed to..."

May 8, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Family

"...Richard Avedon..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Arts Feature

Figure in the Frame

The exhibit Arnold Newman: Masterclass gives us all a lesson in the power of the photographic portrait

"...20th century, the two masters of photographic portraiture were Richard Avedon and Arnold Newman. Avedon stuck to the studio,..."

March 15, 2013 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

Day Trips & Beyond: Amon Carter Art Museum

This Fort Worth museum is one of the coolest in Texas

"...is the institute that commissioned “In the American West,” Richard Avedon’s photographic masterpiece of portraits of ordinary people...."

Nov. 20, 2015 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

What Not To Wear on Your Walls

Dress your dorm room right with Austin purveyors of poster art

"...it will be too soon. The same goes for Richard Avedon's "Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent" (are we dating..."

Aug. 24, 2012 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Pachanga!

Cinco de Mayo month Part III – the hombres: from Jovita's Mayo Pardo to Ruben Ramos' Mexican Revolution, Del Castillo, Joel Guzman, y más

"...the stack of books beside his desk. He produces Richard Avedon's portrait of Cesar Chavez and hands it over...."

May 29, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Funny Face: Centennial Collection

Hepburn and Astaire say, 'Bonjours, Paris!' in the still-spry Funny Face

"...the catwalk is situated ("Bonjours, Paris!"). Astaire plays the Richard Avedon-like photographer who discovers her, then remolds her – shades..."

Jan. 9, 2009 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones

MACC Mommy

Managing the busy new Mexican American Cultural Center is inspiring work for Amparo Garcia-Crow

"...feature film (One From the Heart). Inspired by a Richard Avedon photo exhibit, In the West continues to be..."

Sept. 14, 2007 Arts Feature by Belinda Acosta

Pages as Presents

2001's crop of coffeetable books

"...leading social observer and absurdist; and Penn, along with Richard Avedon, is the country's most distinguished fashion photographer...."

Dec. 7, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Day Trips

The Amon Carter Museum has a new, modern look, but it's still the same old great place to get culture.

"...have returned regularly to see famous traveling exhibits like Richard Avedon's "In the West," or more obscure shows like..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Column by Gerald E. McLeod

The Original Hipster

Chronicle writer Dick Holland on the comeback of Texan Terry Southern, the all-around bad boy of black humor

"...a much-in-demand model and worked with Irving Penn and Richard Avedon. It was during this period that Southern hooked..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Books Feature by Dick Holland

Book 'Em

Recent Picks From the Summer Crop

"...1950s and Sixties working with fashion and portrait photographer Richard Avedon, pop artist Andy Warhol, and poets Allen Ginsberg..."

Aug. 24, 2001 Books Feature by Dave Oliphant

Taking Pictures

This year, for whatever reasons, Dick Holland writes, we have been blessed with photography books of great beauty and intelligence. Several of the leading figures in the canon of 20th-century photography are represented in this season's unusually rich outpouring, among them Eugéne Atget, Walker Evans, and Edward Steichen.

"...later photographers as talented and diverse as Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, and Annie Liebowitz can be viewed as growing..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Books Feature by Dick Holland

American Caste

Seven authors react to the photos and documentation in Rich Crawford's Texas Death Row.

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Louis Dubose

American Caste

"...the automated lens. All the others fall into the Richard Avedon zoological approach to photography. To search for meaning..."

Oct. 20, 2000 News Feature by Alan Pogue

Chronicle Recommends: Films About Fashion

Get glamorous with our favorite catwalk flicks

"...with Winding Refn and composer Cliff Martinez here). – Richard Whittaker Radioactive Dreams (1985)..."

June 4, 2018 Screens Post by Chronicle Film Staff

Toast to an Artspace About Art

Pro-Jex's Tunnel of Art on Fifth Street Was More Than a Gallery, Much More

"...He and Courtney have framed countless movie posters for Richard Linklater, Liebowitz's portraits of Ann Richards for the former..."

April 3, 1998 Arts Feature by John Spong