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  Thursday  January 6  2005    10: 15 AM

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Avedon's final take
For 60 years, Richard Avedon's work amazed the world. But nobody knew his portraits of American soldiers who fought in Iraq would be his last. His assistant, Laura Wilson, captured his final moments


As we piled into the van at 8:30pm and headed up Interstate 80, one of the world's most famous photographers, now 81, was making his third three-hour trip between Reno and Winnemucca that day. It was September 18, 2004. "We're off to Maine!" he said, anticipating the bright prospects of a road trip. This is what he always said over the 25 or so years I had known him. It referred to his childhood in New York City, when his family, on special occasions, would borrow a car and pretend to be setting off, like the richest of the rich, for their summer holiday.

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  thanks to The Analog Photography Users Group