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The Sixties: Young in the Hamptons.
Photographs and text by John Jonas Gruen. Essays by Richard I. Barons.
Charta, Milan, 2006.
96 pp.,
80 b&w illustrations,
10¾x8½".
Publisher's Description
The Hamptons, the string of idyllic country beach towns on eastern Long Island
within a morning’s drive of New York City, haven’t always been reserved for the
rich and famous: some of the twentieth-century’s best-known cultural figures
weren’t rich or famous yet when they arrived there. In 1960, the writer and photographer
John Jonas Gruen and his wife, the painter Jane Wilson, bought a carriage
house in Water Mill, a hamlet between Southampton and East Hampton.
Gruen, then an art and music critic for the New York Herald Tribune, and later a
regular contributor to The New York Times, ARTnews and Vogue, had long been
an avid photographer, and it gave him enormous pleasure to take pictures of his
family and friends at every possible opportunity. Thus it was that The Sixties:
Young in the Hamptons was born, a visual memoir of the young Robert
Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Marisol, Jim Dine, Leonard
Bernstein, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, Stella
Adler and Edward Albee, among many other gifted visitors.
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