Avedon's 1957 portrait at Christie's, Paris
“For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing that’s — she did Marilyn Monroe – a genius invention that she created like an author creates a character. Then there was the inevitable drop … she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. I wouldn’t photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no.”
