The Godfather Family Album - XXL Collectors Edition (Trade sample)
Steve Schapiro
Hardcover | 30 x 5.5 x 44.5 cm | 444 pp
Taschen | 2008 | 9783822837306
PLEASE NOTE: This is an ex-display trade sample of Taschen's limited edition of 1,200 copies, and as such it is unsigned and unnumbered and does not have the clamshell box.
Condition
The bottom corners of the pages have been cut to identify it as an ex-display copy. There are some small marks on the back cover. See final images.
Clamshell box not included.
Selections from Steve Schapiro’s photographs provide an insider’s view of the making of the legendary trilogy. Imagine the experience of witnessing renowned actors as they made their most memorable performances. Steve Schapiro has had such a privilege as special photographer on some of American cinema’s most beloved movies. For Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy, Schapiro immortalised actors such as Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Caan, Robert Duvall,and Diane Keaton. His photographs of the Godfather holding the cat and the whisper in the Godfather’s ear have become iconic images known throughout the world. Brought together in a book for the first time is a vast selection of images from all three Godfather films, reproduced from Schapiro’s original negatives.
This lavish limited-edition book, which also includes background articles and interviews about the films, contains over 400 colour and black-and-white images, most of which have never been published before. It allows fans a privileged peek behind the scenes at the making of film history, and it truly is a once-in-a-lifetime offer you can’t refuse.
The photographer
Steve Schapiro’s career as a freelance photojournalist started with a story on Arkansas migrant workers that made the cover of the The New York Times Magazine in 1961. Since then, his images have appeared in Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and many other publications. In the 1970s, he began a second career as a successful publicity stills and movie poster photographer, working on classic films such as Taxi Driver, The Way We Were, and The Godfather. He died in 2022.
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Description
Steve Schapiro
Hardcover | 30 x 5.5 x 44.5 cm | 444 pp
Taschen | 2008 | 9783822837306
PLEASE NOTE: This is an ex-display trade sample of Taschen's limited edition of 1,200 copies, and as such it is unsigned and unnumbered and does not have the clamshell box.
Condition
The bottom corners of the pages have been cut to identify it as an ex-display copy. There are some small marks on the back cover. See final images.
Clamshell box not included.
Selections from Steve Schapiro’s photographs provide an insider’s view of the making of the legendary trilogy. Imagine the experience of witnessing renowned actors as they made their most memorable performances. Steve Schapiro has had such a privilege as special photographer on some of American cinema’s most beloved movies. For Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy, Schapiro immortalised actors such as Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Caan, Robert Duvall,and Diane Keaton. His photographs of the Godfather holding the cat and the whisper in the Godfather’s ear have become iconic images known throughout the world. Brought together in a book for the first time is a vast selection of images from all three Godfather films, reproduced from Schapiro’s original negatives.
This lavish limited-edition book, which also includes background articles and interviews about the films, contains over 400 colour and black-and-white images, most of which have never been published before. It allows fans a privileged peek behind the scenes at the making of film history, and it truly is a once-in-a-lifetime offer you can’t refuse.
The photographer
Steve Schapiro’s career as a freelance photojournalist started with a story on Arkansas migrant workers that made the cover of the The New York Times Magazine in 1961. Since then, his images have appeared in Life, Look, Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and many other publications. In the 1970s, he began a second career as a successful publicity stills and movie poster photographer, working on classic films such as Taxi Driver, The Way We Were, and The Godfather. He died in 2022.
