Portraits of Power, the title of a new book published three years after Avedon's death to celebrate election year in America, presumably refers both to the power his subjects wielded and to the power Avedon's style of photography conferred upon them. His subjects were frequently figures in public life, and being photographed by him served to reinforce their celebrity. M any of the photographic portraits that Richard Avedon took in the course of his long and celebrated career are bound up with the idea of fame.
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