The luminous years : portraits at mid-century / Karl Bissinger ; edited by Catherine Johnson ; introduction by Gore Vidal.

By:

Bissinger, Karl

Contributor(s):

Johnson, Catherine

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York ; Harry N. Abrams, 2003.Description: 144 p. : ill. 31cmISBN:

0810946025

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

770.92 BIS

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 1 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	770.92 BIS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000368937

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Karl Bissinger dropped out of the world of photography some time in the late 1950s, but before then he spent ten years photographing the luminaries of cafe society and haute bohemia in New York, Paris and London. subjects include Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood and Katharine Hepburn. From the cafe scene in France he photographed Jean Renoir, Jean Cocteau, Colette and Jean Marais, and English luminaries include Aldous Huxley, Rex Harrison, Alec Guinness and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.