卡羅爾·基特曼（Carol Kitman）逝世，享年96歲；攝影師記錄了文德曼雙胞胎兄弟的一生
一次在布魯克林的偶然相遇，開啟了一項長達數十年的拍攝項目，記錄了這對兄弟從童年到因批評川普總統而聲名大噪的歷程。
1978年的卡羅爾·基特曼。圖片來源：基特曼家族
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1972年，基特曼夫人與她的丈夫馬文·基特曼（Marvin Kitman）合影。馬文·基特曼是一位電視評論家和專欄作家。在馬文放棄攝影事業後，基特曼夫人開始從事攝影。圖片來源：基特曼家族
基特曼夫人於1952年畢業於布魯克林學院，並在1950年代和1960年代擔任代課教師。 1971年，她從紐約市立學院獲得心理學碩士學位後，曾在戒酒康復中心擔任諮商師，她的病人包括作家約翰·契弗和杜魯門·卡波特。
基特曼先生在放下相機專心寫作之前，曾是一位有抱負的攝影師。在1960年代的某個時候，基特曼夫人重拾攝影，到了1975年，她對自己的攝影技術足夠自信，便辭去了康復中心的工作，成為一名全職自由攝影師。
但她始終與溫德曼兄弟保持聯繫。
“她找到了我們，就像發現了我們一樣，我們成了他們生活的一部分，”亞歷山大·溫德曼談到基特曼一家時說道，“但她還有攝影愛好。所以，這便是這兩種熱情的結合。”
Carol Kitman, 96, Dies; Photographer Documented the Vindman Twins
A chance encounter in Brooklyn led to a decades-long project following the boys’ lives, from childhood to national prominence as critics of President Trump.
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Mrs. Kitman in 1972 with her husband, Marvin Kitman, who was a television critic and syndicated columnist. She picked up photography after he gave up his aspirations to pursue it as a career.Credit...via the Kitman familyMrs. Kitman graduated in 1952 from Brooklyn College and worked as a substitute teacher in the 1950s and ’60s. After receiving her master’s degree in psychology from the City College of New York in 1971, she was a counselor at an alcohol recovery center, where her patients included the writers John Cheever and Truman Capote.
Mr. Kitman had been an aspiring photographer before setting his camera aside to write. Sometime in the 1960s, Mrs. Kitman picked it up, and by 1975, she was confident enough in her skill to quit her job at the recovery center to be a full-time freelance photographer.
But she kept coming back to the Vindman brothers.
“She found us, just kind of discovered us, and we were part of their lives,” Alexander Vindman said of the Kitman family. “But then there was her photography. And so it was just a mixture of those two passions.”
