The Luminous Years: Portraits At Mid-Century by Karl Bissinger, Introduction by Gore Vidal - Catherine Johnson; Karl Bissinger(fotografie)

Original boards dust jacket, illustrated with b/w photographs, unpaged, 4to. [Auteur: Bissinger, Karl] [Pagina's: 144] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: New York : Harry N. Abrams] [Jaar: 2003] [Titel: The Luminous Years: Portraits at Mid-Century]

IN STAAT VAN NIEUW, NOG VERPAKT IN KRIMPFOLIE (NIET GEOPEND)Catherine Johnson; Karl Bissinger(fotografie, The Luminous Years: Portraits At Mid-Century by Karl Bissinger, Introduction by Gore Vidal, Abrams, 2003, 132 blz., hardcover, 26 x 32 cm.This intimate portrait collection captures post-WWII celebrities and bohemians--including Truman Capote, Marlon Brando, Katharine Hepburn, James Baldwin, Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal, among many others--during what Vidal calls""our brief golden age."" Shot primarily in New York City during the late 1940s and early 1950s, the era's luminaries strike a pose in their various apartments, studios and local haunts: Katharine Hepburn lifts her head in the gleaming sunshine of her New York townhouse garden; Henry Miller cooly lights a cigarette with his feet propped up on his desk in Big Sur; and Jean Cocteau glowers from the Paris set of Les Parents terribles. These mid-century snapshots include photographs never before published or not see… [Titel: The Luminous Years]