Cinema/ Theatre [Hardcover]

Adam Gopnik (Author), Brigitte Lacombe (Photographer), David Mamet (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2, 2001

Always black and white, naturally lit, and stripped of make-up and costumes, French photographer Brigitte Lacombe's iconic celebrity portraits reveal the generation of film and theater stars that has emerged since the 70s. See Spielberg looking boyish; Kevin Kline embarassed and self-conscious; Leonardo di Caprio watching hawkishly; John Malkovich staring; Diane Keaton collapsed in laughter. This exquisitely produced oversize volume is a retrospective of images that gorgeously conveys Lacombe's deep love for the performing arts and the people involved in it.

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About the Author

Brigitte Lacombe became involved with photography when she left school to apprentice in the "Elle Paris" darkroom. She discovered her love for the performing arts at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival, where she met Dustin Hoffman and Donald Sutherland and was invited onto the set of Fellini's "Casanova". Her photographs have graced the pages of "The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Paris Vogue, Vanity Fair," and "Conde Nast Traveler".
American playwright and director David Mamet is best known for his plays "Speed-the-Plow", the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Glengarry Glen Ross", and "Oleanna", which he also directed on film.
Adam Gopnik is a writer and editor for "The New Yorker" and the author of "Paris to the Moon". He has received the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism as well as the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 292 pages
• Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel (September 2, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3888149495
• ISBN-13: 978-3888149498
• Product Dimensions: 14.7 x 10.9 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,962,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars There is no one like Brigitte Lacombe. . ., January 9, 2007

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Brigitte Lacombe's book of photographs, taken throughout her life, of those people most of us will never know in our lives. . .is the most exquisite compilation of photographs ever transposed in one single books. There is no one who shoots a subject as Brigitte Lacombe does, and no one a subject trusts more. Is it book of celebrity photographs? Yes. But the celebrity is -- without question -- Brigitte Lacombe.