The Guardian: Strike a pose! Audrey Hepburn, Patti Smith and more

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Richard Avedon (United States, 1923–2004), Audrey Hepburn and Art Buchwald, with Simone D’Aillencourt, Frederick Eberstadt, Barbara Mullen, and Dr. Reginald Kernan, evening dresses by Balmain, Dior, and Patou, Maxim’s, Paris, August 1959, 1959, gelatin silver print, 16 11/16 x 23 5/16 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Judy Glickman Lauder Collection, Museum purchase with gift in honor of Judith Glickman Lauder, 2020.7. © The Richard Avedon Foundation

Norman Seeff (United States, born South Africa, born 1939), Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith, New York, 1969, archival pigment print, 15 x 22 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Promised Gift from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection, 1.2016.1. Image courtesy Luc Demers. © Photograph by Norman Seeff

Melonie Bennett (United States, born 1969), Suzie, Bahama Beach Club, Portland, Maine, 1996, gelatin silver print, 16 x 20 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Promised Gift from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection, 25.2001.1. Image courtesy Luc Demers. © Melonie Bennett

Mario Giacomelli (Italy, 1925–2000), Lo Non Ho Mani Mi Accarezzino Il Volto (There Are No Hands to Caress My Face), 1961–1963, gelatin silver print, 11 7/8 x 15 7/8 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Promised Gift from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection, 6.2018.17. Image courtesy Luc Demers. Archivio Mario Giacomelli © Simone Giacomelli

Max Yavno (United States, 1911–1985), Cable Car, San Francisco, 1947, gelatin silver print, 15 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Promised Gift from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection, 7.1998.73. Image courtesy Luc Demers. © Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona

James Van Der Zee (United States, 1886– 1983), Kate and Rachel Van Der Zee, Lenox, Massachusetts, 1909, gelatin silver print, 7 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Promised Gift from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection, 7.2021.4. Image courtesy Luc Demers. © James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gordon Parks (United States, 1912–2006), American Gothic (Portrait of Ella Watson), Washington, DC, 1942, gelatin silver print, 13 x 9 1/8 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Promised Gift from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection, 3.2016.8. Image courtesy Luc Demers. Courtesy of and © The Gordon Parks Foundation

Imogen Cunningham (United States, 1883– 1976), Edward Weston and Margrethe Mather, 1922, gelatin silver print, 9 1/4 x 7 3/8 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Promised Gift from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection, 5.2021. Image courtesy Luc Demers. © 2022 Imogen Cunningham Trust

Ogle Winston Link (United States, 1914– 2001), Hot Shot Eastbound, Iaeger, West Virginia, 1957, gelatin silver print, 14 1/8 x 18 1/8 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Promised Gift from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection, 16.2018.8. Image courtesy Luc Demers. © O. Winston Link Museum and Winston Conway Link

Sally Mann (United States, born 1951), Emmett, Jessie, and Virginia, 1989, gelatin silver print, 18 3/4 x 23 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Promised Gift from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection, 4.2012. © Sally Mann. Courtesy Gagosian

Leon Levinstein (United States, 1910–1988), Coney Island, 1966, gelatin silver print, 10 1/4 x 12 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Promised Gift from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection, 4.2008.1. Image courtesy Luc Demers. © Leon Levinstein, Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Jerry N. Uelsmann (United States, 1934– 2022), Small Woods Where I Met Myself, 1967, gelatin silver print, 10 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Promised Gift from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection, 11.2006.18. Image courtesy Luc Demers. © Jerry N. Uelsmann

Joyce Tenneson (United States, born 1945), Self-Portrait with Bird Cage, 1975, inkjet print, printed later, 11 x 16 1/8 inches. Portland Museum of Art, Maine, Promised Gift from the Judy Glickman Lauder Collection, 10.2010.12. Image courtesy Luc Demers. © Joyce Tenneson