Truman Capote, Writer, New York City
Richard Avedon American
Not on view
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.
