There's a slideshow of these amazing photographs. This is a "must-see." I just went through them all again - mostly photo's of ordinary people; simply amazing.
The New Yorker: Online Only: Cover Gallery.
Earlier this year, Avedon decided that he would try to capture a sense
of the country in the midst of a crucial Presidential election
campaign. [...]
After more than fifty sessions, he also had a series of sittings
scheduled for his return East—with Donald Rumsfeld, William Rehnquist,
Alan Greenspan, and William Kristol—but on September 25th in San
Antonio, where he had been working with Iraq veterans and was preparing
for a sitting at a school, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Six days
later, he died, and this portfolio, “Democracy,” was left unfinished.
