Toni Morrison, Truman Capote, Patti Smith … A new coffee-table book collects Richard Avedon’s portraits of his aging subjects By Carolina de Armas If the renowned fashion-and-portrait photographer Richard Avedon had listed his relationship status with cameras on Facebook—a platform launched just months before his death, in 2004—he likely would have chosen “It’s complicated.” As he confessed in his book with Truman Capote, Observations (1959), “I hate cameras. They interfere, t...
