Avedon continued working, getting projects from the New Yorker, where he was the only staff photographer, to fashion and independent projects. 

He was always involved in conflicts and politics. He photographed the civil rights movement in the south of the United states, the anti-war movement in 1969 and went to Vietnam around that time. 

He made a book called The Kennedys: portrait of a Family which include these photographs:

Portraits of power was made in 2008 and it gathers all the portraits avedon has made of political figures.