News Summary

• The new book “ Richard Avedon: The Harper’s Bazaar Years ” (Abrams) collects the work he made for the magazine in the course of more than two decades.
• From early on, his work was distinguished by a sense of pleasure in the process.
• He didn’t just take models out of the studio, he gave them a world to make-believe in and a narrative that, however loosely constructed, carried them through cinematic spreads of up to twenty pages.