Movie Review: A Holy Man in India, Descended From New York Fashion

THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Ben Kenigsberg

Nicholas Vreeland taking photographs in Naples, Italy. Credit Kino Lorber

HOLLYWOOD---Becoming a Buddhist monk and “renouncing worldly ways” apparently don’t preclude starring in a documentary about your life. In “Monk With a Camera: The Life and Journey of Nicholas Vreeland,” the conceit is that the subject, known to his friends as Nicky, went from a lifestyle of privilege to one of asceticism and simplicity. Mr. Vreeland, a photographer who worked with Irving Penn and Richard Avedon and a grandson of the legendary fashion editor Diana Vreeland, is now an abbot at a monastery in India. [link]