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This illuminating biography of Richard Avedon (1923–2004) is a sympathetic yet clear-eyed portrayal of the photographer's life and career. Award-winning photography critic Getner (Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe) details his subject's milieu vividly, a circle encompassing a generation of cultural icons, from James Baldwin and Truman Capote to Mike Nichols, Andy Warhol, and Leonard Bernstein. Readers will relish the insider accounts of how famous images came to be made: model...Log In or Sign Up to Read More