“Whether or not people like my portraits of them isn’t the point,” Richard Avedon told The New York Times in 1975. “Each of my portraits is more a portrait of myself than of someone else — a portrait of what I know, what I feel, what I’m afraid of.” A year later, the photographer speculated to Women’s Wear Daily, “I think [my subjects] pose because they want to be told something about themselves that they didn’t know.”