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The first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning photography critic Philip Gefter.Richard Avedon photographed the most iconic figures of the twentieth century in a starkly bold, intimately minimal, and rigorously forensic visual style. His work for Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and The New Yorker transformed ideals of women's fashion, culture, and femininity and became the defining look of an era. His portraits were exhibited in museums throughout the world. Yet, in Avedon's lifetime, he was condescendingly dismissed as a "celebrity photographer." What Becomes a Legend Most is the first definitive biography of this legend - an intensely driven man who endured personal and professional prejudice, struggled with intense insecurities, and mounted an existential lifelong battle to be recognized as an artist.