Of all the photographs that appeared in Bazaar, perhaps the most famous is Richard Avedon’s Dovima with elephants. Taken at Cirque d’Hiver in Paris and published in the September 1955 issue, the image would become the template for high fashion in the 1950s, and Dorothy Virginia Margaret Juba, who rechristened herself Dovima, would help define the notion of beauty for an era. By the 1970s, though, Dovima’s star had faded, and she wound up working as a hostess at Two Guys pizzeria in Fort Lauderdale, a poster of Dovima with elephants on display in the back room. When a reporter for a local paper asked about her former life as a model, she said, “It always seemed like I was watching a movie. And I’m in the movie. Only it…
