Elaine at Elaine’s, 2002, with some regulars (L to R):
Lewis Lapham, Frederick Seidel, Father Pete Colapietro, Mayor David Dinkins, George Plimpton, Terry McDonell, Chuck Pfeifer, Josh Gasparo, Nelson Aldrich, Bobby Zarem, David Black & A. E. Hotchner
Photograph © Jonathan Becker
John Paul Getty III, Linda Hutton, Averil P. Meyer
and Fred Hughes in Elaine’s kitchen, 1976
Photograph © Jonathan Becker
Brassaï’s 80th Birthday at Elaine’s, 9 September 1979
Photograph © Jonathan Becker
Elaine’s was a form of inheritance to me, and I didn’t squander it. Both my mother and my father were part of an intellectual and theatrical New York culture - intelligencia, litterati, glitterati, whatever - that made the city glow in the Sixties and Seventies…
– Jonathan Becker
A special portfolio by Jonathan Becker of his brilliant photographs documenting the heyday of Elaine’s Restaurant in New York, illustrated with his personal reminiscences, is published in the first ever glorious Inaugural Issue of DRUGSTORE CULTURE.
DRUGSTORE CULTURE's Publisher, Charles P. Finch
"Is it a book? Is it a magazine?...." asks British GQ's Charlie Burton.
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