![]() ![]() He would also make master prints, build sets, thaw frozen camera equipment, and trouble-shoot anything and everything needed to turn Avedon’s creative vision into perfect pictures. During Lewin’s 16 years at Avedon’s side, he would collaborate on shoots featuring Sophia Loren, Anjelica Huston, Samuel Beckett, Andy Warhol, Lauren Hutton, Audrey Hepburn, Rudolf Nureyev, Rene Russo, Barbra Streisand, and Bob Dylan, among countless others. That’s when the world’s most celebrated fashion photographer turned to Gideon Lewin, a young assistant who’d been with Avedon for less than a year, and said, “Gideon, you are taking over.” And that, as Lewin recalls in Avedon: Behind the Scenes 1964 -1980, is the moment he “began a long career lighting the world’s most beautiful and interesting people.” So everyone was caught off-guard when Avedon’s longtime studio manager, at the brink of absolute exhaustion, abruptly retired. ![]() It was a heady but high-stress time, as big egos rubbed up against tight deadlines. The magazine’s editor-in-chief, creative director, and fashion editor had flown in for the all-important shoots, and Avedon’s temporary studio was open around the clock, humming with models, stylists, and assistants. In July of 1965, Richard Avedon was in Paris shooting the fall collections for Harper’s Bazaar. ![]()
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