Richard Avedon defined both fashion and portrait photography from the 50s to the 70s. His stark black-and-white wall-sized portraits chronicled that time (as with The Chicago Seven) and the place (with his series The American West) that was America. In conjunction with their major retrospective, “Richard Avedon Photographs 1946-2004,” the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has put together eight different “Richard Avendon Film Series Programs.” These film nights were inspired by a book that Avedon published with writer James Baldwin entitled Nothing Personal. Taking its cue from the issues raised in the book, the series highlights short and feature films that speak to race (Edward Pincus’ Black Natchez and John Akomfrah’s Seven Songs for Malcolm X), sexuality (Shirley Clarke’s Portrait of Jason), politics (Richard Leacock and Noel E. Parmentel Jr.’s Campaign Manager), and the nuclear threat (Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb).