What is Richard Avedon’s most famous photo?

Richard Avedon took thousands of photographs throughout his nearly 60-year career, but his most famous is arguably Dovima with Elephants (1955), made for Harper’s Bazaar. It shows American model Dovima in a Dior evening gown posed between elephants at the Cirque d’Hiver in Paris. Scholars have noted the work’s striking contrasts between elegance and mass, grace and physical power, freedom and captivity. The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, describes the image as one that “proclaim[s] the power of an elegant woman,” with Dovima appearing to subdue the elephants “through touch alone.”