Edward Albee, My Favorite Photograph

When Edward Albee died in September of 2016 at age 88, I remembered that I had taken this photograph of him on the beach in Montauk, down below his home.  I quickly looked everywhere but had no luck because my files of 41 years of my work are not well organized.  I was going through some color transparencies more recently and found a color portrait of him with a background of trees that was taken after this assignment.  So I posted that portrait on the blog on March 27, 2025.  Then recently I found a print of THIS portrait, the one I had been looking for all these years!  I was thrilled beyond belief!  The portrait is all that I remember it to be, with him surrounded by the sea and the sky and grasses, leaning on a fence with the driftwood in the foreground!  I think this is a perfect portrait of him!  I did mention that he couldn't have been nicer both times that I photographed him, in spite of him looking like this for the portrait.  It is the face he wanted to present to the public and I let him do that.  Please click on this image because I posted it in a much larger size.