Directly across the room is Dovima herself, in the YSL for Dior creation.
Upstairs, a melange of less glamorous, equally iconic works are presented.
The grizzly aftermath of Valerie Solanas assassination attempt on Andy Warhol.

Giovanna Battaglia Engelbert, Derek Blasberg, Jonathan Anderson
The beekeeper from Avedons haunting seriesIn theAmericanWest.
The collective portrait projectThe Family, which presents U.S. power brokers in the most turbulent stretch of the mid-1970s.
(Bazaarpromptly published Machados pictures in their February 1959 issue.)

Elsewhere isDonyale Luna, the first Black model of color to appear on the cover ofVogue.
And to think, Avedon was almost never a photographer.
Black-and-white headshots in front of stark, bare backgrounds, according to Blasberg.

Michael Avedon, Olivier Bialobos
Larry Gagosian, Anna Weyant