Apartments of New York City Literary Legends (1995)

Dominique Nabokov’s  New York Living Rooms was originally commissioned as a photo essay for the New Yorker in 1995. It features the interior living spaces of some of the city’s most fabled cultural figures, including Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Allen Ginsberg, and Joan Didion.

"New York Living Rooms is not exactly about interior decoration. Although it represents a special stylistic and aesthetic approach, it is above all a document. No rearranging, no adding of bouquets, no use of flood lights. I approach the living rooms like I approach the people I photograph: a portrait as close to reality as possible."

Susan Sontag. Photo by Dominique Nabokov.

Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne. Photo by Dominique Nabokov.

Allen Ginsberg. Photo by Dominique Nabokov.

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