{"product_id":"just-passing-through-paperback","title":"Just Passing Through: A Seven-Decade Roman Holiday: The Diaries and Photographs of Milton Gendel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMilton Gendel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eCullen Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair'\u003c\/i\u003es Best Books of 2022 \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Milton Gendel had the good fortune to live a wildly entertaining life in Rome--a charmed, romantic period he captured in diaries and photos. Milton had the further good fortune to have Cullen Murphy bring this vanished dolce vita to life.\" --Graydon Carter, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAir Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA never-before-seen treasure trove of photos and diary entries from the celebrated photographer Milton Gendel that bring Rome's midcentury heyday to life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I'm just passing through,\" Milton Gendel liked to say whenever anybody asked him what he was doing in Rome. Even after seven decades in the Eternal City, from his arrival as a Fulbright Scholar in 1949 until his death in 2018 at the age of ninety-nine, he refused to be pigeonholed. He was always an American--never an \"expat,\" never an émigré--but he couldn't leave, so deep were his ties, and this dual bond left an indelible imprint on his life and art. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in New York City to Russian immigrants, Gendel first made his way to Meyer Schapiro's classroom at Columbia University and then to Greenwich Village, where he and his friend Robert Motherwell joined the circle of surrealists around Peggy Guggenheim and André Breton. But it was Rome that earned his enduring fascination--the city supplied him with endless outlets for his curiosity, a series of dazzling apartments in palazzi, the great loves of his life, and the scores of friendships that made his story inextricably part of the city's own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGendel did much more than just pass through, instead becoming one of Rome's foremost documentarians. He spoke Italian fluently, worked for the industrialist Adriano Olivetti, and sampled the latest currents of Italian art as a correspondent for \u003ci\u003eARTnews\u003c\/i\u003e. And he was an artist in his own right, capturing the lives of Sicilian peasants and British royals alike on film and showing his photographs at the Roman outpost of the Marlborough Gallery. Then there were his diaries, a casement window thrown open onto a who's who of artists, writers, and socialites sojourning in the city that remained, for Gendel, the \u003ci\u003eCaput Mundi\u003c\/i\u003e: Mark Rothko, Princess Margaret, Alexander Calder, Anaïs Nin, Gore Vidal, Martha Gellhorn, Muriel Spark. His longtime home on the Isola Tiberina was the nerve center of the dolce vita generation, whose comings and goings and doings he immortalized in both words and images. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHere, for the first time in print, are Gendel's diaries, together with his photographs, selected and edited by Cullen Murphy. \u003ci\u003eJust Passing Through\u003c\/i\u003e brings together the most striking artifacts of one of the past century's richest and most expansive lives, salted with wit and insight into the figures who defined an era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes black-and-white photographs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMilton Gendel\u003c\/b\u003e (1918-2018) was an American photographer and art critic who lived and worked in Rome. He studied at Columbia University and served in the U.S. Army in China before winning a Fulbright Scholarship and moving to Italy, where he worked as a correspondent for \u003ci\u003eARTnews\u003c\/i\u003e. His photographs have been shown in numerous galleries in Italy and elsewhere abroad. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCullen Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e is an editor at large at \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, where he was the longtime managing editor, and he has also been an editor at large at \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eCartoon County: My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 2017) and is at work on a book on the fountains of Rome.\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 9.2 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42093836140679,"sku":"9781250872579","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/7dd7aab0d2177a1ecc6968e9a14be4ff.webp?v=1732315200","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/just-passing-through-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}