Richard Avedon

"Facing West is a good subtitle. Although there are cowboys and farmhands aplenty, these photographs do not romanticise the West: there are no tumbleweeds, saddles or tobacco. Avedon’s subjects are confrontational, tired and often smeared with the grime of dangerous hard labour. This was not Avedon’s first rodeo when it came to probing the fissures at the heart of American culture; he was also photographing radicals and protesters in the same style."

— The Standard