For hours she danced and sang and flirted and did this thing thatsshe did Marilyn Monroe, Avedon said later, adding that the white wine helped things along. Then there was the inevitable drop
she sat in the corner like a child, with everything gone. And he clicked his shutter once more. I wouldnt photograph her without her knowledge of it. And as I came with the camera, I saw that she was not saying no. The resultant final frame is among the most famous portraits ever madeone that is, as the photographer Vik Muniz neatly put it, a picture of Norma Jean, not Marilyn.
