Selected photographs will be shown for two weeks at the Pace/MacGill Gallery in Manhattan, beginning on Wednesday, and at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, starting Oct. 5. And a slender volume, “Eye of the Beholder: Photographs From the Collection of Richard Avedon” (Fraenkel Gallery), assembles the majority of the collection in a boxed set of five booklets: “Diane Arbus,” “Peter Hujar,” “Irving Penn,” “The Countess de Castiglione” and “Etcetera,” which includes 19th- and 20th-century photographers.

"Scherzo di Follia, 1863-66," by Pierre-Louis Pierson -- part of the collection of Richard Avedon.

Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery and Pace/MacGill Gallery

"Ernestine, 1854-55" by Nadar.

Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery and Pace/MacGill Gallery

"Evelyn Avedon, 1975," by Richard Avedon.
Courtesy of the Avedon Foundation

"Stella, 1867," by Julia Margaret Cameron

Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery

"Farm Girls, ca. 1928" by August Sander

Sander Archive

"Identical Twins, Roselle, N.J. (1966)," by Diane Arbus.
Courtesy of the Estate of Diane Arbus