New York Living Rooms by Dominique Nabokov, James Fenton (Introduction), James Fenton (Introduction)

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Using the remaining available stock of the discontinued Polaroid Colorgraph type 691 film, Dominique Nabokov has, over the last several years, photographed the extraordinarily varied living rooms of celebrated New Yorkers. The effect is satisfyingly voyeuristic; the stillness of the living rooms without their inhabitants is both unsettling and thrilling. Some of these riveting images first appeared to wide acclaim in a New Yorker photo essay. In this book, she expands this unique series by including over 70 living rooms of well-known New Yorkers.

Hilton Als

Dominique Nabokov is a chronicler of a society that determines much of the intellectual and political future of New York. -- Artforum

What People Are Saying

John Richardson
As a photographer, Dominique Nabokov disdains artifice. . .the truth is all that counts. She knows the genius loci has to be taken by surprise.

Luc Sante
Nabokov's deadpan series of portraits reveals the tropisms of a certain society so pointedly that her eye might be the skeptical eye of the future. These rooms may represent their tenants as they perceive themselves, naked or in costume, but also helplessly anchored to their time.

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