Penelope Tree

Penelope Tree and a guest leave the ball.

Truman Capote’s Black & White Ball, 1966

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© Morrison Ray, courtesy of CNP Montrose

“Ray “Scotty” Morris”

Truman Capote 1957

Truman Capote Bangkok, Thailand, 1957

Photo Cecil Beaton

Truman Capote, 1948

Truman Capote, 1948

Photo Cecil Beaton

Arthur Truman Capote

Arthur Truman Capote (1924-1984) relaxes with a book and a cigarette in his cluttered apartment, Brookyln Heights, New York 1958

Photo Slim Aarons

Photo Leombruno-Bodi 1954

Model in red sailor-collared middy shirt and shorts with a black-pattened leather belt. Laying on the beach, she uses her hand to shield her eyes from the sun 1954

Photo Leombruno-Bodi

Sunny Harnett

Vintage International “Music for Chameleons” Truman Capote cover

Photo Leombruno-Bodi

Truman Capote, Morocco, 1949

Truman Capote on Vacation – Author Truman Capote in swimsuit and smoking a cigarette, among a group of people and a goat, sunbathing on a rock near the ocean in 1949. Photo Cecil Beaton – Condé Nast Archive/Corbis

From left – Jane Bowles, David Herbert, and Truman Capote,

Morocco, 1949

Photo Cecil Beaton

Truman Capote in Morocco, 1949

Photo Cecil Beaton