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Richard Avedon’s Rugged American West Comes to Paris

Avedon was renowned for his fashion photography and celebrity portraiture, but in the 1970s he made indelible images of coal miners, cotton farmers, and cowboys.

Lora Webb Nichols’s Mysterious Images of the American West

In the early twentieth century, Nichols made dreamlike photographs of the frontier that feel both intimate and faraway.

Introducing: Garrett Grove

Against the backdrop of the US presidential election, a photographer documents growing cultural tensions in the Pacific Northwest’s rural communities.

Three Women Photographers Reclaim the American Landscape

Susan Lipper, Kristine Potter, and Justine Kurland deconstruct the mythology of the Wild West.

Carleton Watkins and the Image of Manifest Destiny

In his new book, Tyler Green considers a pioneering photographer of the American West.

National Geographic's American West Exhibitions

Rare and amazing images from the American West, in a series of National Geographic exhibitions.

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Aperture No. 261

Aperture’s issue on craft features photographers who make pictures the slow way—building camera obscuras, creating photograms, and laboring in traditional darkrooms to make handmade, unrepeatable forms.

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