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Lawson Corbett Little shot Key West

Lawson Corbett Little was born in Chicago in 1945 and studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design and the California Institute of the Arts. For much of the past 20 years, he has lived in Nashville, photographing luminaries of the country music scene including Dwight Yoakam and Hank Williams III. In the 1970s and 1980s Little lived in Key West, where he helped establish the photography program at Florida Keys Community College and photographed notable authors and musicians including James Merrrill, Thomas McGuane, Jimmy Buffett, Philip Caputo, and David Allan Coe. The images above are among hundreds Little produced of Shel Silverstein, the inestimably talented writer, artist, and musician.

Posted by Arlo Haskell on August 12, 2009 2:17 PM

Thomas McGuane & James Merrill, ca. 1987

These studio portraits of novelist Thomas McGuane (left) and poet James Merrill (right) by an unidentified photographer were likely taken in January of 1987. According to Merrill's wristwatch, his session took place at a quarter past one in the afternoon.

Posted by Arlo Haskell on May 20, 2009 6:30 PM