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| Richard Avedon Mr & Mrs T.S. Eliot 1958 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Mr & Mrs Bernard Buffet 1959 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Sicilian Catacombs 1959 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Sicilian Catacombs 1959 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Sicilian Catacombs 1959 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Sicilian Catacombs 1959 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Sicilian Catacombs 1959 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Sicilian Catacombs 1959 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Self Portrait ca. 1960 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Lee Radziwill 1960 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Perry Smith 1960 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Truman Capote with Perry Smith 1960 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Wedding at City Hall 1961 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Wedding at City Hall 1961 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Wedding at City Hall 1961 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
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| Richard Avedon Wedding at City Hall 1961 gelatin silver print National Museum of American History, Washington DC |
from The Epistles
You of course live in the way that is truly right,
If you've been careful to remain the man
That we all see in you. We here in Rome
Talk of you, always, as 'happy' . . . here is the fear,
Of course, that one might listen too much to others,
Think what they see, and strive to be that thing,
And lose by slow degrees that inward man
Others first noticed – as though, over and over
Everyone tells you you're in marvelous health
You might towards dinner-time, when a latent fever
Falls on you, try for a long time to disguise it,
Until the trembling rattles your food-smeared hands.
It's foolish to camouflage our sores.
– Horace (65-8 BC), translated by Robert Pinsky (1979)