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He understands that self-exposure, an organizing principle of our politics and our culture, is a defense mechanism: The selves we shamelessly exhibit to the world are screens, and Avedon uses his camera to penetrate them.
But while Avedon's portraits clearly represent his bid for artistic immortality--a bid he has assiduously devoted much of the past decade to mounting--they represent only one facet of his work.
In the American West leaves out the most striking fact about the West--its landscapes; similarly, the Vietnam pictures in The Sixties --taken during Avedon's 1971 trip to Saigon--contain no lush jungles or crowded urban streets, no Hueys or hamlets or rice paddies.
Avedon is Mephistopheles with a camera--an exemplary modern artist.
In Helen Whitney's PBS documentary Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light , he is confronted by Sandra Bennet, who was 12 when he put her on the cover of In the American West in a halter top and denim overalls.