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Hilton Kramer, for instance, called Avedon's 1994 retrospective at the Whitney (which produced a gorgeous book titled Evidence: 1944-1994 ) "the ultimate capitulation to celebrity, money and fashion at the expense of art."
Rather than record the drama of Vietnam, Avedon invited his subjects--journalists, soldiers, aid workers, activists, and ordinary Vietnamese--to re-enact it.
First at Harper's Bazaar , where he was a protégé of the legendary editor Carmel Snow and her equally celebrated art director Alexey Brodovitch, and then at Vogue , to which he defected, for a million-dollar contract, in 1966, Avedon's covers and spreads defined the frothy, exuberant spirit of American fashion photography in what will likely be remembered as its golden age.
And then there are the bellybuttons: On one page Truman Capote, no longer the slender, bow-tied manchild Avedon had photographed a decade earlier, pulls open his dark shirt to show his navel, a winking eye in an expanse of pale flesh.
In 1974, he exhibited a series of deathbed portraits of his father, a New York clothing retailer, which struck many viewers (including Avedon's son) as an act of unchecked Oedipal hostility.