Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: BERG, Paul
Title: [Capote in the RCA studio where he recorded excerpts from his book the "Spoken Word"]
Event Date: n.d.
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.138105

Inscriptions:
Recto: [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: TRUMAN CAPOTE / (PAUL BERG); handwritten: CE 12, 051; handwritten: N.Y. 4.8.: handwritten: 1- 36 [36 in a circle]; handwritten //J; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / ST. LOUIS POST DISPATCH / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING, NEW YORK; handwritten: RA17; handwritten: VF 3968; attached inscription, typed: Playfully making a oradille [sic] with a rubber band, Capote waits for engineers to ready / things in the RCA studio where he recorded excerpts from his book the “Spoken Word” / series. The 41 year old author was born in New Orleans, named Streckfus [sic] Persons. / When his mother remarried, he took his stepfather’s name, Capote. He was 23 / when his first novel “Other Voices, Other Rooms” was published. His novel, “Breakfast / at Tiffany’s first ran in Esquire magazine, was then published as a book and made / into a movie starring Audrey Hepburn. It was mainly on the proceeds of “Breakfast / at Tiffany’s” that he supported himself during the six-year period in which he re- / searched and wrote”In Cold Blood”.

Tagasauris Keywords: 1 person; Arts, culture and entertainment; Book; Capote (film); Day; Glasses; Head and shoulders; Indoors; Male; Mid adult; Monochrome; Radio; Rubber band; Talk radio; Truman Capote; Truman Capote; wristwatch
Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: PERSONALITIES / TRUMAN CAPOTE
Retouching: N