Bernard Gotfryd and Gore Vidal

July 21, 2008

The following is photographer Bernard Gotfryd’s recollection of his portrait shoot with Gore Vidal

“There wasn’t much time to talk about anything specific, and I had to rush to my next assignment, but we still managed to have a cup f coffee together. When I told him he resembled an uncle of mine who had disappeared during World War II, he said:”I hope you have pleasant memories of him.” “I certainly do,” I said. “in that case,” he said  “I’ll take it as a complement.”

A nice interchange.  Bernard Gotfryd was a holocaust survivor who later became Newsweek photographer. I’d like to find his book “The Intimate Eye: Portraits by Bernard Gotfryd”.