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A Life in Photography, Signed by Rollie McKenna
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[Signed] McKenna, Rollie. A Life in Photography. First Edition. 1991. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition—pages and jacket show mild yellowing with age. Book is intriguingly inscribed, “Without Cl***’s interference, this book would have been done two years ago. With Lucy’s blessings it’s done this November. Love, anyhow, Rollie, Stonington.” Foreword by Richard Wilbur.
It is something of a misnomer to consider this hybrid monograph/memoir just one life in photography. Many lives are presented in the book, including some of the most admired writers of the post-World War II era whom McKenna shot for magazines such as Mademoiselle, Harper’s Bazaar, and Time. Truman Capote in 1950 was her first, but it was the photos she took of her friend Dylan Thomas on his trip to America just before his death, that brought her lasting fame. The Dylan photographs are included in this book, as well as portraits of Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonard Bernstein, W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ezra Pound, Katherine Anne Porter, et al.
“It is sad and ironic that Dylan’s fame would turn on so tragic an end, and that my career would be accelerated by it.”
--Rollie McKenna
It is something of a misnomer to consider this hybrid monograph/memoir just one life in photography. Many lives are presented in the book, including some of the most admired writers of the post-World War II era whom McKenna shot for magazines such as Mademoiselle, Harper’s Bazaar, and Time. Truman Capote in 1950 was her first, but it was the photos she took of her friend Dylan Thomas on his trip to America just before his death, that brought her lasting fame. The Dylan photographs are included in this book, as well as portraits of Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonard Bernstein, W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Georgia O’Keeffe, Ezra Pound, Katherine Anne Porter, et al.
“It is sad and ironic that Dylan’s fame would turn on so tragic an end, and that my career would be accelerated by it.”
--Rollie McKenna
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