Last month, while Richard Avedon was playing down his fashion photographer profile by showing Manhattan numerous images he has produced in other genres, another New Yorker, Arthur Elgort, was making personal appearances at the city's book stores and the Staley-Wise gallery to launch Models Manual, which focuses on his 22 years of fashion for Condé Nast and other magazines.

At the opening of an exhibition of Louise Dahl-Wolfe's photographs this week at the Staley-Wise Gallery, Mrs. Dahl-Wolfe sat surrounded by hundreds of admirers, surrounded, too, by some of her most famous photographs: the langourous nude on a sand dune, Suzy Parker in a Balenciaga suit and her luminescent portrait of Colette.