New York Living Rooms, published by Apartmento, offers an intimate window into the greatest and most beautiful city in the world. Photographer Dominique Nabokov has captured the living rooms of Susan Sontag, Joan Didion, Allen Ginsberg, and other leading cultural figures of New York with her Polaroid camera exactly as they are, nothing added, nothing changed. Nabokov herself describes her images as interior portraits, and that's precisely what makes them so fascinating, revealing, and honest. A foreword by poet James Fenton completes the picture.
The book is part of Dominique Nabokov's trilogy, originally published as photo essays in The New Yorker. From New York, the series continues to Paris and Berlin. The book is written in English.
New York Living Rooms is the first installment in Dominique Nabokov’s holy trinity of interior photography works, re-issued by Apartamento Publishing more than two decades after it was first published in 1998. Originally commissioned as a photo essay for the New Yorker in 1995, it offers a frank and intimate study of the interior living spaces of some of the city’s most fabled cultural figures, including Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Allen Ginsberg, and Joan Didion. With nothing added and nothing altered, Nabokov calls these images her interior ‘portraits’. Some spaces are indulgent and ostentatious, others shelter the bare necessities, but Nabokov simply records them all for her fellow voyeurs and leaves us to decipher the rest. Long out of print, this updated edition brings back to life an era of New York City history, seen through Nabokov’s original Polaroid photos and the original introduction by English poet James Fenton.
