Richard Avedon, Carmen (Homage to Munkácsi), August 1957. The model wears a coat by Pierre Cardin, and was photographed at Place François Premiere square in Paris.

Left: Richard Avedon talks to actress Audrey Hepburn during a photo session. Right: Richard Avedon takes a self-portrait. AP (2) A legal battle over a behind-the-scenes book on Richard Avedon is ...

In Richard Avedon’s over 60-year career behind the camera, he became the pre-eminent fashion photographer and then one of the most famous photographic portraitists in the world ...

Kate Moss and Richard Avedon in 1993. Ron Galella Collection via Getty Avedon passed away in 2004, but during his lifetime, he photographed stars, models and politicians.

FILE - In this Oct. 9, 2002 file photo, Richard Avedon poses in front of his self-portraits, part of the exhibit "Richard Avedon: Portraits," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Avedon died last week at the age of 81. Paging through a book of his portraits makes it clear that, as Avedon said, he took the human condition, not the individual, as his subject.

Richard Avedon poses in front of a photograph of actor Bert Lahr at an exhibit of Avedon's work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Oct. 8, 2002. AP ...

Petra Alvarado, factory worker, El Paso, Texas, on her birthday 4/22/82 by Richard Avedon is part of the new show at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art.

Gideon Lewin, who worked with famed photographer Richard Avedon for 16 years, recounts his experiences in a new book, “Avedon: Behind the Scenes 1964 – 1980.” ...

In 1966, Avedon donated a set of the Kennedy images to the museum as part of a larger donation of 217 black-and-white photographs. John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy by Richard Avedon, 1961.

Avedon at Large “Richard Avedon: Murals” fills just one gallery of the Met, but “fills” is an understatement. These in-your-face, wall-engulfing portraits are a milestone in image-making.

Say Richard Avedon and iconic images instantly come to mind: Dovima in an elegant Dior gown juxtaposed with gargantuan circus elephants, a space age Jean Shrimpton on the cover of Harper’s ...