单选题   Para. 1 ①If his diaries are any indication, Andy Warhol had little affection for Richard Avedon. ②In an entry from December 1976, Warhol recalled running into a woman they both knew at a dinner party in New York.
    Para. 2 ①'We talked about how horrible Avedon is,' Warhol wrote. ②'She said he gets what he wants out of a person and then drops them. ③I agreed and then everybody screamed at me that I do the same thing.'
    Para. 3 ①Whatever their animosities, Avedon and Warhol are being posthumously paired in an exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery. ②The show, which runs through April 23rd, presents 33 Warhol silk-screens and 22 Avedon works (including a single series of 69 portraits) dating from the 1950s to the 1990s.
    Para. 4 At first glance, they form an awkward tandem, as towering figures in separate artistic disciplines.
    Para. 5 ①But they had similar backgrounds and early career trajectories. ②Born five years apart in the 1920s to East European immigrant families, they got their starts in the New York fashion world, both working for Bonwit Teller and Harper's Bazaar. ③Although their paths then diverged—Avedon shifting from fashion photography to portraiture and Warhol becoming a painter and filmmaker and a Pop Art stalwart—they moved in the same New York circles, often portraying the same people.
    Para. 6 ①The Gagosian is illustrating that overlap, eager to present the two men as equals who documented similar themes from different angles, thrusting aside hierarchical distinctions between painting and photography. ②The exhibition also has a commercial logic: It presents the work of two hugely famous artists, one of whom (Avedon) has the advantage of being relatively affordable.
    Para. 7 ①The idea for a combined exhibition came up after the Avedon Foundation—a nonprofit organization that owns Avedon's photographs, negatives and archives and raises money through print sales—made the Gagosian its exclusive representative. ②The gallery thought of twinning Avedon with an artist 'to change people's ideas about photography and the standing of photography in the world,' said Kara Vander Weg, a director of the Gagosian in New York.
    Para. 8 Donna De Salvo, a deputy director of the Whitney Museum who curated Tate Modem's 2002 Warhol retrospective, and who is staging one at the Whitney, described Avedon and Warhol as a 'provocative pairing' but a valid one, though she had not yet seen the Gagosian show.
    Para. 9 ①'Avedon's work to me was always on this fine line between fashion and high art, and that's the line Warhol walked as well,' Ms. De Salvo said. ②She noted that the two artists did in fact share a medium: 'Warhol would be inconceivable without the photographic image. ③It's so deeply embedded.'
    Para. 10 ①She described Avedon as a 'giant' of photography who was a worthy exhibition companion for Warhol. ②In any event, 'nobody can diminish Warhol: You can put him with just about anything,' she said. ③'He becomes a great foil to play off.'