Double Click: Carol Kino with Gilbert King

From the renowned art journalist, a dual biography of identical twin sisters who became groundbreaking fashion photographers in 1940s New York City

The McLaughlin twins were trailblazing female photographers, celebrated in their time but largely forgotten since. Frances was the only female photographer on staff in Condé Nast's photo studio, and her work appeared in Glamour and Vogue. Her sister Kathryn’s surrealistic portraits filled the era’s new “career girl” magazines, including Charm and Mademoiselle. Both twins married Harper’s Bazaar photographers and socialized with a glittering crowd. In this new biography, Carol Kino uses their story to illuminate the lives of young women during this golden era of magazine photography, an early twentieth-century moment marked by proto-feminist thinking, excitement about photography’s burgeoning creative potential, and the ferment of wartime New York.

Carol Kino worked on Double Click: Twin Photographers in the Golden Age of Magazines during her 2019-2020 Fellowship at the Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers. She will discuss her book with the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Gilbert King.   

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Carol Kino’s writing about art, artists, the art world, and contemporary culture has appeared in publications such as the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Atlantic, Slate, Town & Country, and many major art magazines. She was formerly a fellow at the USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Program. She grew up on the Stanford campus in Northern California and lives in Manhattan. Double Click is her first book.

Gilbert King is the writer, producer, and host of Bone Valley, a multi-part narrative podcast about murder and injustice in 1980s central Florida, from Lava For Good podcasts. He is the author of three books, most recently, Beneath a Ruthless Sun. His previous book, Devil in the Grove, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction in 2013. A New York Times bestseller, the book was also named runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. King has written about race, civil rights, and the death penalty for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic, and he was a 2019-2020 Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. King’s earlier book, The Execution of Willie Francis, was published in 2008. He lives in Brooklyn.

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