Richard Avedon, who died last October while ... I stood with him before a very large print of his 1955 picture Dovima with Elephants. Avedon shook his head. "The sash isn't right," said the ...

Richard Avedon, known for his stark black-and-white photographs of fashion models, artists and intellectuals, set out in 1979 to document the American West. Of his many portraits of cowboys ...