Face to Face by Camilla McGrath

Face to Face

The Photographs of Camilla Mcgrath

Camilla McGrath, Andrea Di Robilant, Griffin Dunne

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · October 27, 2020

A revelatory collection of behind-the-scenes photographs of celebrities and cultural icons—from Joan Didion to the Rolling Stones to Nancy Pelosi.

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Who it’s for
Camilla McGrath’s photographs capture cultural figures in casual moments across decades and gathering places.
Themes
Celebrity photography, Cultural icons, Casual, playful moments
Genres
Celebrity Photography, Portrait Photography, Photographer Monographs

About this book

A revelatory collection of behind-the-scenes photographs of celebrities and cultural icons—from Joan Didion to the Rolling Stones to Nancy Pelosi. Featuring short essays from Fran Lebowitz, Harrison Ford, and more. "A treasure trove of celebrities at play in the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s." —PEOPLE Camilla Pecci Blunt, a nonprofessional photographer who grew up between Italy and New York, was well placed to forge the path she did.

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Her mother was passionate about the arts, took photographs, painted, and collected artists around her, and had galleries in Rome and New York. The more than six hundred photographs in this book from the 1950s to the early 1990s capture our cultural icons in casual, playful moments. After she married Earl McGrath in 1963, their homes--first in New York and then in Los Angeles--became gathering places for a wholly unexpected mix of people that Camilla documented in these surprising, in-the-moment photographs: Jackie Kennedy, Jerome Robbins, Sammy Davis Jr., Calvin and Kelly Klein, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Bruce Chatwin, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Jean Tinguely, Frank O'Hara, Jasper Johns, Allen Ginsberg, the Rolling Stones, Bryan Ferry, Bette Midler, Jerry Hall, Keith Haring, Linda Ronstadt, Jerry Brown, Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski, John Waters, Joan Didion, Angelia Huston, Robert Graham, David Hockney, Michael Crichton, and Barbra Streisand, among many others. Andrea di Robilant's essay, along with memories from Griffin Dunne, Vincent Fremont, Harrison Ford, Fran Lebowitz, and Jann Wenner, reveal the backstory of this irresistible look at the larger-than-life cultural figures of our time as you have never seen them.

Cultural Figures

Camilla McGrath’s photographs capture cultural figures in casual moments across decades and gathering places.

Come here for

  • Casual, playful photographs of cultural figures from the 1950s to early 1990s
  • Short essays and contributors’ memories

Expect

  • Behind-the-scenes photographs spanning New York and Los Angeles
  • Contributions from Fran Lebowitz, Harrison Ford, and others

Where it sits

Celebrity Photography95%
Portrait Photography46%
Photographer Monographs25%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Photographers - General
  • Event Photography
  • Celebrity Photography
Authors
Camilla McGrath, Andrea Di Robilant, Griffin Dunne
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published
October 27, 2020
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Celebrity photography · Cultural icons · Casual, playful moments
Reading lane
Photographers - General