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30 Sep, 32 tweets, 13 min read
Remembering Truman Capote on his birthday πŸŽ‚
πŸ“· Jean Mounicq, Paris, 1966
"Perhaps the single constant in his prose is style, and the emphasis he himself places upon the importance of style."
- Mark Schorer Image
Truman Capote by Carl Van Vechten
March 30, 1948. He was 23.
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Katharine Graham was the guest of honor at Truman Capote's Black & White Ball, November 28, 1966
Today we're celebrating his birthday πŸŽ‚ - masks on, everyone! Image
On Truman Capote's birthday, this famous portrait by Irving Penn, New York, 1948

and

Sandro Miller, John Malkovich after Irving Penn "Truman Capote", New York (1948), 2014 ImageImage
Stefano Rapisarda
Truman Capote & Donald Windham in Venice, 1948
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Truman Capote & Edmund White, by Robert Mapplethorpe, 1980?
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Does anyone know what the artwork is behind them? Image
Truman Capote by Henri Cartier-Bresson
New Orleans, 1947
"I was not meant to work in an office or something, though I would have been successful at whatever I did. But I always knew that I wanted to be a writer and that I wanted to be rich and famous." Image
Martha Swope
Robert Morse as Truman Capote in a scene from Jay Presson Allen's play Tru, 1988
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Morse won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play, & then an Emmy for the 1992 American Playhouse TV version. Image
Horst P. Horst
Truman Capote at home, 1959
The book is Observations, published that year, with photography by Richard Avedon, commentary by Truman Capote & design by Alexey Brodovitch. It's now a collector's item.
avedonfoundation.org/observations-1… Image
Truman Capote by Horst P. Horst
Truman is in his Jaguar XKE, in the driveway of his Long Island home, November 1965 Image
Alfred Eisenstaedt took a great series of photos of Truman Capote ice skating at the Rockefeller Center rink, for Life magazine in 1959. Go Bulldog! Image
Truman Capote skates!
πŸ“· Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1959 ImageImageImageImage
Truman Capote by Horst P. Horst
Vogue, November 1965
"He does what he does with art. That art is a sort of music. We gather to listen and to blend ourselves into the composer's background. Just like the chameleons."
- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Image
Truman Capote by Arnold Newman, New York City, 1977
"Paradoxically, Capote's freakishness was a kind of camouflage that allowed him to disappear, become a fly on the wall."
- Molly Haskell Image
Truman Capote & his bulldog in Portofino
πŸ“· Leonida Barezzi, 1950s
Capote was nicknamed Bulldog as a child, because he carried a pencil & notebook around, like the detective Bulldog Drummond. Image
Robert Capa
Truman Capote & Jennifer Jones on the set of Beat the Devil, 1953
When the shoot was over, Jack Clayton presented Capote with a bulldog, who he named "Charlie J. Fatburger." Image
Truman Capote by John Rawlings for Vogue, 1963
He was an E-type guy; there's an earlier model in the thread above. Image
Truman Capote by David Attie, 1958
"He had the autodidact's fanatical favorites & unaccountable gaps. He went to the movie of Great Expectations & became more & more agitated: 'They've stolen my plot!' he screamed furiously."
- Molly Haskell Image
Truman Capote by Otto Stupakoff, 1970
"He wrote the best sentences of anyone of our generation."
- Norman Mailer Image
Truman Capote & Andy Warhol by Mick Rock, 1979 Image
Truman Capote with Robert Blake & Scott Wilson on the set of In Cold Blood.
πŸ“· Steve Schapiro, 1967 Image
Truman Capote by Bruce Davidson, 1965
"I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch & with a cigarette & coffee handy."
His creative work was mainly horizontal, so the desk was for the hard stuff: autographs. Image
Truman Capote by David Attie, 1958
In his home at 70 Willow Street in Brooklyn, where he wrote Breakfast at Tiffany's & In Cold Blood
The story of David Attie's lost photographs of Truman Capote, told by his son @EliAttie:
independent.co.uk/arts-entertain… Image
Namurt Etopac
A self-portrait by Truman Capote
Happy birthday Namurt! Image
Truman Capote by Irving Penn, 1965
"All literature is gossip. What in God’s green earth is Anna Karenina or War & Peace or Madame Bovary, if not gossip?" Image
Truman Capote by Jerry Cooke, 1947
On his first European trip the 24-yr-old met Evelyn Waugh, Harold Nicholson, Cecil Beaton, Camus, Cocteau, Colette & more Image
Orange you glad I remembered today is Truman Capote's birthday?
πŸ“· Harry Langdon, Los Angeles, 1981 Image
A #photobooth shot with Mel Ferrer, Audrey Hepburn & Truman Capote, 1961 Image
Another #photobooth shot: Truman Capote, Audrey Hepburn & Mel Ferrer. There should be at least four of these, but I could only find two. Image
Cecil Beaton
Truman Capote in Morocco, 1949
#Jump!
I don't believe Philippe Halsman began his famous #jump! series until the 50s. Image
Truman Capote by Chris Smith, 1980
Such a sincere photo, & no mugging for the camera by Truman. Image
Truman Capote by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 Image

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