Brooklyn

Truman Capote’s Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs of David Attie

Truman Capote’s Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs of David Attie

David Attie studied with Alexey Brodovitch, who also trained Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, and who first acquainted the artist with Truman Capote. Introducing this lost work to the public now, reveals an intriguing set of relationships and illuminates a particular moment in Brooklyn’s history. Decades after the photographer’s passing, his son, Eli Attie, came across a manila envelope simply…
Interview with Black and White photographer Ra Friedman

Interview with Black and White photographer Ra Friedman

RA Friedman is the son of four generations of Brooklynites and has been involved with photography since elementary school. He studied drawing at Harpur College, Binghamton NY, and earned an MFA from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge in 1994. While continuing to photograph in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, he is working on a five city book project that contrasts…