The book opens with the momentous phone call when Avedon invites Stevens - a successful advertising copywriter - to be his studio director, and she, in spite of her misgivings, agrees. If you like tales of obsessive perfectionism and mercurial extravagance, then you'll never be bored with this lavishly illustrated verbal portrait of one of the 20th century’s photographic masters.
“How many people can say they were never for a minute bored with their job?” Stevens asks. Thus, it’s a delight to learn more about the man behind the camera in the new book “Avedon: Something Personal,” co-written by Norma Stevens, his studio director from 1976 until Avedon’s death in 2004, and the writer Steven M.L.
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