Published: May 16, 2024; Aithor: Julia Sonrisa
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Web: https://www.grolierclub.org/Grolier Club member Deirdre Donohue, Assistant Director of the New York Public Library’s Art, Prints, and Photographs division, will discuss with Carol Kino her new book, “Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines,” a dual biography of the McLaughlin sisters, identical twins who became groundbreaking photographers in New York during the glamorous magazine golden age of the 1930s and 1940s.
Kino uses their careers to illuminate the lives of young women of the era, marked by proto-feminist thinking, excitement about photography’s creative potential, and the ferment of wartime New York. Kino, formerly a Fellow at the NYPL’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center, where she worked on the book, and the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program, grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and now lives in Manhattan. Her writing about art, artists, the art world, and contemporary culture has appeared in major art magazines as well as such publications as The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Slate, and Town & Country.
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