Time capsule on youtube: a simulated behind-the-curtain visit to Richard Avedon’s studio, devised for an advertising campaign in 1973.
Avedon has multiple balls in the air, but then the small, wiry maestro demonstrates to long and lanky Jean Shrimpton how he wants her to jump. She expresses uncertainty, but once before the camera, she’s in the zone. Avedon sinks to the ground in homage.
There’s a companion piece where Avedon’s subjects are languid Anjelica Huston and Pat Cleveland getting kinky, and you see A-team hair and make up artists Ara Gallant and Way Bandy.
And a really madcap one with Lauren Hutton where her dressing room turns into A Night at the Opera.
And a cross-dressing vignette with Veruchka.
Avedon lensed the series for Japanese retail company Jun Rope.