Some of Staley-Wise Gallery’s represented artists on Artsy as some of the fashion photographers that defined the genre.

Richard Avedon's fashion and portrait photographs helped define America's image of style, beauty and culture for the last half-century.

Despite his immense success-and a retrospective now on view at the Whitney Museum-Richard Avedon still worries that people don't take him seriously as an artist. "When will they ever stop judging me as a man," he asks, "and look at the work?"