BIB_ID
454193
Accession number
MA 5040 PH 70
Credit line
Paris Review.
Description
1 photographic print
Notes
Part of Series 3 of The Paris Review Archives, which consists of photographs that were removed from the Series 1 (Editorial Correspondence) and Series 2 (Interviews) files, replaced with preservation photocopies, and placed in this series. Each folder contains a sheet describing where the items were removed from.
19.3 x 18.4 cm (image); 24.5 x 20.6 cm (sheet)
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso in blue ink: Paris Review writers-- the so-called / Tournon group-- can be identified.
Provenance
Paris Review.
Summary
Group portrait of nineteen early writers and editors of the Paris Review, posed outside the Cafe Tournon in Paris (sign visible at top), including poet Christopher Logue (1926-2011); author William Styron (1925-2006); author, screenwriter, and poet Eugene Walter (1921-1998); writer and editor George Plimpton (1927-2003); writer and illustrator William Pène du Bois (1916-1993); and journalist and novelist William Gardner Smith (1927-1974).
Medium
Gelatin silver print
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