The sixties young in the Hamptons

The Hamptons, on eastern Long Island, New York, haven't only just catered to the rich and famous. In 1960, the writer/photographer John Jonas Gruen and his wife, the painter Jane Wilson, purchased a carriage house in Water Mill, a small hamlet between Southampton and East Hampton. Gruen, then an art and music critic for the New York Herald Tribune, and later a regular contributor to the New York Times, Vogue, ARTnews, and Dance Magazine, had long been an avid photographer; it gave him enormous pleasure to photograph his family and friends at every possible opportunity. Thus it was that The Sixties: Young in the Hamptons, was born, a visual memoir of the young Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning, Marisol, Jim Dine, Leonard Bernstein, Lukas Foss, Arthur Gold, Robert Fizdale, Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, Kenneth Koch, Stella Adler, and Edward Albee, among many other gifted visitors. Gruen is the author of fifteen books, including four biographies: The Private World of Leonard Bernstein; Menotti: A Biography; Erik Bruhn: Danseur Noble; and Keith Haring: The Authorized Biography.