Brooklyn - A Personal Memoir with the Lost Photographs of David Attie
Author(s): David Attie
In 2002, The Little Bookroom published Truman Capote's homage to Brooklyn, A House in the Heights. In 2014, the original photographs commissioned to illustrate the 1959 piece were discovered by the photographer's son. Capote's essay was the first magazine assignment for David Attie and he shot many of the photos during the course of a day, with Capote in tow. Also found among the negatives were ravishing portraits of Capote taken on that same day; none of the photos have ever published. Now, in a new edition with a new title, Capote's Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs, the images will be published for the first time. The more than 80 images provide a stunning and atmospheric visual portrait of 1950s Brooklyn - its buildings, shops, street life, lost moments - a Brooklyn at once strangely familiar yet largely vanished: horse-drawn wagons delivering produce to housewives, kids swimming in the East River and getting into mischief on the docks, dimly-lit bars, vintage signs, bricklayers, and barbers, all set against a backdrop of period architecture, that spectacular bridge, and the skyline of Manhattan.
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Capote's Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs collects eighty stunning, never-before-seen photos of Truman Capote and his Brooklyn Heights neighborhood taken by the young photographer David Attie. The photos were originally comissioned to accompany Capote's brief essay, "A House on the Heights," first published in Holiday magazine in the late 1950s and reissued by The Little Bookroom in 2002. But the photos were never published--until now. Capote's Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs thus provides a unique and tantalizing peek into the celebrated writer's life and the world he inhabited.
David Attie's (1920-1982) first professional assignment, given by his mentor Alexey Brodovitch of Harper's Bazaar, was a series of photo montages to illustrate Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's for the magazine. Following that assignment, Attie's commercial and fine art work was prolific and wide-ranging, shooting covers and spreads for Vogue, Time, Newsweek, Playboy, and Harper'sBazaar. Eli Attie served as a special assistant to President Bill Clinton, and then as Vice President Al Gore's chief speechwriter. He was also a longtime writer on the TV series The West Wing and House.
General Fields
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- : Little Bookroom,U.S.
- : Little Bookroom,U.S.
- : 0.567
- : 01 November 2015
- : 210mm X 210mm
- : United States
- : 01 October 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : David Attie
- : Hardback
- : 779.9974723
- : 112