youtube - Darkness & Light
dvd on Richard Avedon, awesome look in to the life of a great photographer. It's over an hour long, but well worth watching. Seen it a few times now, but could watch it over and over again.
Just makes you want to buy some of his books, but the prices of some of them - jesus, unreal.
It's good to get an insight as to how he works, thinks and goes about getting some of the most famous portraits ever taken, watching how he built a rapport with his subject and what he actually did and said to get some of the emotions he captured.
His images aren't just photographs, they are works of art and as such can't be just classed as portraits.