{"product_id":"book-hq3y","title":"Double Click","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTown \u0026amp; Country\u003c\/i\u003e Must-Read Book of Spring 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Fashion, photography, and pop culture aficionados will be captivated” (\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review) by this riveting dual biography of the McLaughlins—identical twin sisters who became groundbreaking magazine photographers in New York during the glamorous golden age of the 1930s and ’40s. In \u003ci\u003eDouble Click\u003c\/i\u003e, author Carol Kino “has interwoven a biography of the McLaughlins with an authoritative, detailed history of fashion, the art world and photography in midcentury New York” (The Wall Street Journal).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time as stars in their respective fields, but have largely been forgotten since. Here, in \u003ci\u003eDouble\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eClick\u003c\/i\u003e, Carol Kino brings these two brilliant women and their remarkable accomplishments to vivid life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eFrances was the only female photographer on staff in Condé Nast’s photo studio, hired just after Irving Penn, and became known for streetwise, cinema verité-style work, which appeared in the pages of \u003ci\u003eGlamour \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eVogue. \u003c\/i\u003eHer sister Kathryn’s surrealistic portraits filled the era’s new “career girl” magazines, including \u003ci\u003eCharm\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMademoiselle\u003c\/i\u003e. Both twins married \u003ci\u003eHarper’s Bazaar \u003c\/i\u003ephotographers and socialized with a glittering crowd that included the supermodel Lisa Fonssagrives and the photographer Richard Avedon. Kino uses their careers to illuminate the lives of young women during this time, an early 20th-century moment marked by proto-feminist thinking, excitement about photography’s burgeoning creative potential, and the ferment of wartime New York. Toward the end of the 1940s, and moving into the early 1950s, conventionality took over, women were pushed back into the home, and the window of opportunity began to close. Kino renders this fleeting moment of possibility in gleaming multi-color, so that the reader cherishes its abundance, mourns its passing, and gains new appreciation for the talent that was fostered at its peak.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePulling back the curtain on an electric, creative time in New York’s history, and rich with original research, \u003ci\u003eDouble Click \u003c\/i\u003eis cultural reportage and biography at its finest.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49346540175664,"sku":"BDhq3y","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49346540241200,"sku":"10hq3y","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/hq3y-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773709291","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-hq3y","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}