Photographers discuss the day they met the Nobel Prize laureate
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| Portrait of Samuel Beckett, taken by Dmitri Kasterine. London, 1965. |
Dmitri Kasterine’s contemplative portrait of Beckett was taken in London, in 1965, at a rehearsal for “Beginning To End,” a BBC Television production that Beckett wrote for the actor Jack MacGowran. “Beckett observed acutely,” Kasterine told me, “never taking his eyes off the actors or director, but saying very little. I gave no directions while taking the picture. When they broke for lunch, we went to a local pub where Beckett drank Guinness and played bar billiards—he beat everyone.” [Read More]
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