untitled (Truman Capote..mail box..Holcomb, KS), Richard Avedon

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Richard Avedon, untitled (Truman Capote..mail box..Holcomb, KS)
Richard Avedon, untitled (Truman Capote..mail box..Holcomb, KS)
Richard Avedon
untitled (Truman Capote..mail box..Holcomb, KS)
1960
Richard Avedon, artist
1923–2004
untitled (Truman Capote..mail box..Holcomb, KS), 1960
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 504 x 404 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 19 13/16 x 15 7/8 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in
Credit line: Museum purchase
Accession number: 1991.0015
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Exhibition Label: "A Kansas Arts Sampler," Oct-2004, Kate Meyer Avedon offers a portrait of Capote in the town of Holcomb, the setting for his book, In Cold Blood. Capote came to Kansas in 1959 to document the murders of the Clutter family that had taken place there earlier that fall. The media coverage of the deaths, Capote’s book, and its later realization as a film all explore the universal fear that violence can intrude upon the smallest of towns.