If you find yourself intimidated by all the lighting setup in a studio, you can always make the outdoors your studio. Lovers of natural light know this all too well. You can always make the outdoors your studio. If this particular body of work by Richard Avedon has got you wanting to make portraits in the same minimalist yet striking style, Marcy James of the Rocky Mountain School of Photography has broken it down to some key takeaways for you: With a project of this scale, timeline, and output, it’s not surprising that many, including Avedon himself, called it his magnum opus.
Wilder, took five years, countless trips through state fair rodeos, carnivals, coal mines, and even prisons, 762 subjects, and approximately 17,000 sheets of 8 x 10 Kodak Tri-X Pan film to complete. The project, commissioned by Amon Carter Museum director Mitchell A. In contrast to the glamorous personalities that usually graced his frames, everyday working class subjects such as miners in their soiled working clothes, housewives, and farmers became the focus of his compelling collection of portraits. While known to many for his elegant fashion photography and celebrity portraits, Richard Avedon is also distinguished for one of his biggest projects–a best-selling book and traveling exhibit entitled In the American West.
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