New York Living Rooms

New York Living Rooms is the first installment in Dominique Nabokov's sacred trinity of interior photography works, reissued by Apartment Publishing more than two decades after its first publication in 1998. Originally commissioned as a photo essay for the New Yorker in 1995, offers a candid and intimate study of the interior living spaces of some of the city's most legendary cultural figures, including Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Allen Ginsberg, and Joan Didion.

Without anything added or altered, Nabokov calls these images his interior "portraits." Some spaces are indulgent and ostentatious, others house basic necessities, but Nabokov simply records them all for his fellow voyeurs and lets us figure out the rest. Long out of print, this updated edition revives an era of New York City history, seen through Nabokov's original Polaroid photos and the original introduction by English poet James Fenton. It also sets the stage for the next editions in Paris and Berlin, which Apartment will rebroadcast later in 2021.

Release date: June 14

Published by Apartamento Publishing S.L.
First edition
June 2021
Dimensions: 240 x 285 mm
Binding: hard cover
Pages: 116

ISBN 978-84-09-28584-6