A Life in Photography

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First Edition. Hardcover. Rosalie "Rollie" McKenna (1918-2003) was an American photographer known especially for photographs of poets and writers. Among those she photographed were Sylvia Plath, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, Truman Capote, W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Edith Sitwell, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, John Minton, and Ezra Pound, She also photographed other celebrities, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonard Bernstein, and James Earl Jones. This photographic biography details her early days being raised in the South, attending Vassar College, and finally developing her love for photography. In addition to portrait photography, she was also very interested in architecture and and the Middle East. She covers chronologically important periods in different places throughout her life. There are special treatments of Dylan Thomas and his family, with whom she spent time; of Kuwait; and of Portraits, which contains photographs of many of the literary personages named above, as well as others. Numerous photographs throughout. This is a prepublication review copy of the first edition. Quarto. Red cloth-covered boards with title in gilt to spine and McKenna's name blind-stamped to front cover. Slight wear to bottom edge of boards. White dust jacket with photos of Dylan Thomas, the Duomo, and Eleanor Roosevelt on front panel. Title in red to front panel and brown to spine panel. Front panel of dust jacket has small liquid stain at bottom Two closed tears and some bumping to front panel of dust jacket. Pages are bright and clean. PHO1/4262.