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Richard Avedon Lauren Hutton, Great Exuma, the Bahamas 1968

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Richard Avedon Theoretical Physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey 1958

"Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and in the end, in large measure, for achieving the realization of atomic weapons. Nor can we forget that these weapons, as they were in fact used, dramatized so mercilessly the inhumanity and evil of modern war. In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose." J Robert Oppenheimer, 1947

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Richard Avedon Napalm Victim, Saigon 1971

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Richard Avedon Debutante Cotillion, New Orleans 1963

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Richard Avedon Ronald Fischer, Bee Keeper, Davis, CA 1981

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Richard Avedon 16-Year Old Lew Alcindor, Long Before He Became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 61st St and Amsterdam Ave 1963

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Richard Avedon Street Performer, Palermo, Sicily 1947

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Richard Avedon Central Park West, New York City 1949

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Richard Avedon Bartender Carol Crittendon, Butte, Montana 1981

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Richard Avedon Painter Jasper Johns, New York City 1976

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Richard Avedon Coal Miners Mike Bencich and Dan Ashberger, Somerset, Colorado 1980

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Richard Avedon Poet Ezra Pound at the Home of Poet William Carlos Williams, Rutherford, New Jersey 1958

The apparition of these faces in the crowd:

Petals on a wet, black bough.

-- Ezra Pound, "In A Station of the Metro" 1913

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Richard Avedon Audrey Hepburn with Art Buchwald, Simone D'Aillencourt, Frederick Eberstadt, Barbara Mullen and Reginald Kerman, Maxim's, Paris 1959

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Richard Avedon Janis Joplin, Port Arthur, Texas 1969

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Richard Avedon Vivian Richardson and Her Granddaughter, Heidi Zacher, Deadwood, South Dakota 1982

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Richard Avedon Naty Abascal and Ana-Maria Abascal with Helio Guerreiro, Ibiza, Spain 1964

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Richard Avedon Coal Miners Gary Polson and Alvin Rowley, Somerset, Colorado 1979