On His Centennial, Richard Avedon’s Star Shines Brighter Than Ever

Explaining the original concept of the curation, she continued, “It was Laura Avedon’s idea to ask people to contribute and tell us what their favorite Avedon photograph was, and that [became] the curatorial concept of the show. We wanted a project that could speak to Avedon’s resonance today and where we are today and thought, What’s better than one voice? Multiple voices.”

In a corner of the Boom Boom Room, Blasberg flipped through images of the exhibition on his phone, showing photos of attendees like Campbell, Leto, Kloss, and Hutton, who posed alongside her famed portrait, sporting the same bucket hat Avedon had shot her in decades before.

“This is the first exhibition I’ve worked on in a curatorial schtick,” Blasberg explained. “In the ’90s, growing up in St. Louis—I’m pre-digital—I had to discover Richard Avedon in magazines. It was the first name I knew, and I had to go to Barnes & Noble and find the books, so this is sort of a sweet full-circle moment.”