“Avedon” Shows the Scars, Just Not the Photographer’s OwnNaomi Fry reviews Ron Howard's Netflix documentary "Avedon," covering Richard Avedon's sixty-year career from Merchant Marine I.D. photos to Paris fashion shoots and portraits of napalm victims, mental-institution residents, and celebrities. She finds the film skims his darker personal life—his bisexuality, unhappy marriages, difficult temperament—while arguing his subjects' true common thread was becoming "Avedons."