Photograph of Norman Mailer at the 1962 International Writers Conference.
[Edinburgh: August, 1962, printed ca. 1990’s].
Price: $750.00
About the item
Landscape-format monochrome photographic portrait, signed (“Peter Keen”) on the lower right margin, dry mounted. 405 x 305 mm. Fine.
Item #247857
Candid portrait photograph of Norman Mailer, taken at the 1962 International Writers’ Conference held at McEwan Hall, Edinburgh. The conference — which was on the subject of “The Novel Today” — was organized by the publisher John Calder and featured seventy writers from twenty countries.
The photographer, Peter Keen (1928-2009), was commissioned to record the event for THE SUNDAY TIMES. His other notable work includes portraiture — some in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery — and the photographic illustrations to Ted Hughes’s RIVER (London, 1983).
