A few years ago, at the opening of a San Francisco exhibition of pictures he made for Harper's Bazaar in the 1940s and '50s, I stood with him before a very large print of his 1955 picture Dovima ...

He credits Richard Avedon’s Dovima with Elephants, first published in September 1955’s Harper’s Bazaar, as one of the key references. “The way I see it is that a lot of women are using this as a ...

In the film there is a model named Marion, who was played by Dovima. She was one of the top fashion models at that time, and often worked with Avedon. Desperate to get both Hepburn and Astaire to ...

The centenary of Avedon’s birth inspired scores of exhibitions and cemented his place in art, fashion and celebrity canon. Richard Avedon planning his retrospective exhibition at New York’s ...

In 1955, fashion photographer Richard Avedon shot Dovima With Elephants, Evening Dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, 1955, a photograph of a statuesque model in an evening gown posed ...

59.7 x 48.3 cm. (23.5 x 19 in.) Nancy Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography (Rochester: George Eastman House, 1979), p. 137 Helen Gee, Photography of the Fifties: An American Perspective ...

Would Linda wilt before the front row or thrive like a latter-day Dovima? The stage lights came on, the first few notes of Basia’s “New Day for You” played, and Linda entered sporting a ...

At Gagosian, Marian Anderson, Marilyn Monroe, Dovima and a cast of showstoppers. By Arthur Lubow Seductive and detail-oriented, Richard Avedon could have been a successful director — and in fact ...

The project, though, never came to fruition, and they eventually lost touch. Dovima with elephants, evening dress by Dior, Cirque d’Hiver, Paris, August 1955. There was a light, inventive touch ...

a couple of black director’s chairs under a giant print of Dovima With Elephants, the most famous of Avedon’s fashion photographs. It was easy to miss the door opposite the studio manager’s ...