WITH VIDEO: Exploring Avedon's impact on fashion photography

An exuberant snap and visceral pop pulsate through much of the best American vernacular art. Louis Armstrong's "Stardust." Fred Astaire's "Top Hat." Frank Sinatra's "Songs for Swingin' Lovers!" Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather." Elmore Leonard's "LaBrava." Forged in the commercial milieu of popular culture, these works manifest an unencumbered vitality and sublime expression that trump an awful lot of so-called "serious" art.

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