He was reportedly devastated when Nowell left him. The couple summered at the gay village of Cherry Grove, Fire Island, and Avedon's bisexuality has been attested to by colleagues and family. In 1944, Avedon married 19-year-old bank teller Dorcas Marie Nowell, who later became the model and actress Doe Avedon they did not have children and divorced in 1949. None of them is the truth." A major retrospective of Avedon's photographs was held at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2002. Of his art Avedon once said, "All photographs are accurate. Among Avedon's most famous images: a supine Nastassia Kinski wearing only a python a close-up of painter Andy Warhol's bullet-scarred torso a Chanel-clad model cavorting with a pair of live elephants. Although he spent most of his 60-year career with the glamor magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, his most distinctive work can be found in his no-frills, black-and-white celebrity portraits. Richard Avedon (– October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer.
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