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Philip Gefter is an American author and photography historian. [1] His books include Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?;
Oct 16, 2020 · He died two years later at the age of 81. To explain the art world’s longtime disregard for Avedon’s oeuvre, Gefter ventures several theories.
Feb 13, 2024 · He died when his adoptive grandson was two, having left him with a liberating, career-launching legacy of $100,000 distributed when Edward attained his 21 st birthday.
Oct 19, 2020 · His first fashion photograph appeared in Harper’s Bazaar in 1944, when he was 21, and he was still shooting for The New Yorker at the time of his death 60 years later.
Feb 14, 2024 · Philip Gefter, author of the new book “Cocktails With George and Martha,” calls “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” “the truest portrait of love in marriage that I know.”
Dec 5, 2014 · The end came too soon and was heart-wrenching. Wagstaff died at age 65, of AIDS. This was in 1987, and Mapplethorpe died of AIDS two years later.
Jul 23, 2009 · Photographic icons, like Robert Capa’s picture of a falling soldier in the Spanish Civil War, are not always as straightforward as they seem, Philip Gefter says.
