He was 81. (Richard Avedon/The New York Times) -- FOR USE ONLY WITH OBITUARY OF RICHARD AVEDON ... Robert McNamara and Donald Rumsfeld to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, ...

Richard Avedon poses with his photographs of Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Marilyn Monroe inside the retrospective exhibit of his portraits at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2002.

Richard Avedon poses with his photographs of Marilyn Monroe, right, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, in 2002. AP Richard Avedon, the most successful fashion photographer of all time, was ...

Richard Avedon poses with his photographs of Marilyn Monroe, right, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, in 2002. AP Forget a picture’s worth a thousand words. Richard Avedon’s 30-by-40 single ...

That’s the question that Anne Breckenridge Barrett, director of the Center for Creative Photography, asks herself when she views Richard Avedon’s 1957 portrait of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

New York fashion photographer Richard Avedon says the ”mythology of Gary Cooper, Willa Cather and the Marlboro Man” drew him West with a trailer, a tripod and an 8-by-10-inch view camera.

Richard Avedon The Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes, hair by Kenneth, New York, ... Richard Avedon, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Waldorf Astoria, suite 28A, New York, ...

The exhibit displays Richard Avedon's 'In the American West.' ... Bob Dylan on the streets of New York, and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at the Waldorf Astoria. From 1979 to 1984, ...

The late photographer Richard Avedon once said, “All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.” Of course, what Avedon offered, at least in the fashion photography which made his ...