Authors photos

[saliotthomas]

I like nice photos of authors and very seldom i'm desapointed by the physique of an writer be it in good or bad.
I think a face tells a lot about the personne.
Look at Dan Brown,the kind of face turning a non-violent to a slapping frenzy.He must have had an hard time in school.

Here we go with Buko

[Jayaprakash]

M. John Harrison, always given to scaling heights not meant for everyone.

[saliotthomas]

Cool one Jayaprakash.

Talking about Chatwin ,this one was with the art of travel.



And this one of Theroux.(In a french train)

2 of my favorites

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[miercuri]

I absolutely love this picture of Carson McCullers


also Zadie Smith is gorgeous:

[Jayaprakash]

I see your Carson McCullers and raise you Jane Bowles:



Oh heck, here's Djuna Barnes too:



There's something a little overly slick about that Smith pic. Was she doing a shoot for GQ?

[Jayaprakash]

I like this photo of RK Narayan.

[Jayaprakash]

Here is William Burroughs again. He loved guns, famously shot his wife dead with one and was frequently photographed with them.

[beelzebubbles]

Try this site.

The Inge Morath Foundation

Lots of pics of celebs and writers. Inge Morath is wonderful photographer.

Unfortunately, they keep monkeying with the site and you can't enlarge the photos anymore which is a shame as they are quite detailed. Morath has a genius for using place to comment on the character of her subjects.

Definitely, check out her work with Sol Steinberg if you can find it. Delightful and whimsical.

[Jayaprakash]

Some very good picks there. I love the Vincent Price one, wish it wasn't so dinky though.

Notice how everyone's posted b&w pics?

[beelzebubbles]

Glad you like them. My favorites are of Philip Roth, Norman Mailer and a slightly goofy one of Pablo Neruda.

Notice how everyone's posted b&w pics?

You know I had to be the iconclast!

[Mirabell]

from one old man in color to a few b/w old men with actual talent:

Ezra Pound

[Mirabell]

Philip K. Dick

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Theodor W. Adorno

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John Berryman

[saliotthomas]

Great pics,i really like the Janes Bowles in Tanger.

here some more



I was very sorry the thread one Mishima did have photos,(and the rest actually)so here are some of the man.






This is specialy for Clarissa,he does look like Redford



And finishing with Huber Selby in the French cover of the demon

[Daniel del Real]

A little tribute to the master of them all



Here a picture with Italo Calvino:




with Derrida





Borges and Sábato:






Finally, with J.G. Ballard

[Jayaprakash]

Javier Marias:



More topless authors - WH Auden, Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood:



Sarah Hall is a new-ish author whose books I admire a lot:



This is one of my favourite pictures of Joyce Carol Oates:



Asimov was one of my first favourite authors:



But Samuel Delany radically rewired my notions of what SF could be:



Some woman who has earned the right to call her books whatever the hell she wants to: