Truman Capote, Writer, New York City
Longtime friends and collaborators Richard Avedon and Truman Capote first worked together in 1959, when Capote wrote the text for Avedon’s book of portrait photographs, Observations. The following year, when Capote was gathering material for his celebrated nonfiction novel In Cold Blood, Avedon joined him in Garden City, Kansas, where he made portraits of Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, the accused murderers who were the subjects of Capote’s book. Avedon photographed Capote several times over the years, chronicling the writer’s physical transformation from the gamine prodigy seen here through the crapulous decline of his later years.
Artwork Details
- Title: Truman Capote, Writer, New York City
- Artist: Richard Avedon (American, New York 1923–2004 San Antonio, Texas)
- Date: October 10, 1955, printed 1974–75
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Image: 39.4 x 39.4cm (15 1/2 x 15 1/2in.)
Frame: 61 x 61 cm (24 x 24 in.) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Gift of the artist, 2002
- Object Number: 2002.379.34
- Rights and Reproduction: © Richard Avedon
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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