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· Austrian-American

Herta Hilscher-Wittgenstein

Photographer whose sustained visits made images of Frances Steloff, her bookshop world, and other difficult subjects of illness and mortality.

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Austrian-American
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Photographer

About Herta Hilscher-Wittgenstein

Herta Hilscher-Wittgenstein worked as a photographer in New York in the 1970s, sometimes in collaboration with Nina Alexander. Her pictures approached their subjects through repeated, intimate observation rather than a single ceremonial sitting.

Her photographs organize The Ineffable Frances Steloff: A Photographic Visit, with comments by Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin. The book makes the photographer—not the famous writers—the author of its visual structure.

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Herta Hilscher-Wittgenstein's photographs were published with comments by Henry Miller and Anais Nin in The Ineffable Frances Steloff.

— The Ineffable Frances Steloff — edition description; Janet Malcolm, The View from Plato’s Cave (1976)

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Henry Miller

Herta Hilscher-Wittgenstein's photographs were published with comments by Henry Miller and Anais Nin in The Ineffable Frances Steloff.

— The Ineffable Frances Steloff — edition description; Janet Malcolm, The View from Plato’s Cave (1976)

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  1. 1The Ineffable Frances Steloff — edition description

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    Mullen Books
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  2. 2The View from Plato’s Cave

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    The New Yorker, 1976
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  1. 3The Happiest Man Alive: A Biography of Henry Miller

    Biography
    Simon & Schuster, 1991
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  2. 4Henry Miller: An Inventory of His Collection

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    Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
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