going to give a lecture the rochester institute of technology and she wanted to pay tribute to margaret burke white who was a"life" photograph and she d a studio on that floor and always photographed herself on one one of the gargoyles. the thing that interested me is that annie was photographing her friend, a dancer... david parsons who's out of the frame. but the picture she took of parsons that she really likes is one she took in the studio when he was on the floor of his studio balancing on his elbows and one knee. it's a wonderful, wonderful picture. she's right to prefer it to anything else and it proves you don't have to climb on a gargoyle to take a good picture. >> rose: the next we see is richard avedon. >> >> that was in his studio and he... just after a major show that opened at the whitney museum of american art in new york and gotten very... surprisingly dismissive reviews. >> rose: what year washis? >> oh, 1994. >> rose: because i remember that. this show started in 1991 and i remember that. go ahead. >> and avedon is rather controlling. i just met him this time but he's got th