In the American WestAn exquisitely produced new publication of In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon, a landmark project of classic American photography First published by Abrams in 1985 in conjunction with the groundbreaking exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, the book is now available in this lush 40th anniversary edition. Richard Avedon was the greatest American photographer of his generation. For In the American West, he traveled

the Desert series was not printed until this past year

Richard Rothman traveled west with a 4x5 camera to explore the remaining fragments of ancient old-growth forests in Northern California

With record breaking winds at 75 miles per hour in Wellfleet

and photographs

Later realizing that in its seclusion

the reason for their being

But this sequence of images defies its individual referents

"Of course there is enough to stir our wonder anywhere

She seems to have picked up exactly where she had left off in 1938

Rotting from Within weaves a deeply personal

she was looking for clues of the past in the present

Now in his 70s