10 Nov 2026, 03:50 PM

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Ron Howard’s illuminating Netflix documentary looks back on the career of one of America’s most inventive and versatile photographersRichard Avedon had only taken a couple of frames when he accidentally hit his head on a light being held above him. The Dalai Lama burst into laughter. That was when Avedon snapped two more frames and announced: “Oh, I got it!”Avedon’s assistant, Sebastian Kim, was baffled. “I was like, what the hell happened? There’s only four frames out of a roll of 12 frames,” he recalls in a phone interview. “I realised he knew at that moment that something had happened, a mistake had happened: he hit his head and the Dalai Lama lit up.” Continue reading...

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