For the record, I am not Richard Avedon.  First the photos, then a story:

I think this is a well known New York socialite.  I photographed her with my zoom lens in the Good Morning America studio in Times Square.  I am not a great portrait photographer, so this is just that an attempt to learn.  I was trying take a really good, stylish portrait.  I don’t know if I actually succeeded.  I did also take another: