
Face to Face
The Photographs of Camilla Mcgrath
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
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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 Photography | 95% |
|---|---|
| Portrait Photography | 46% |
| Photographer Monographs | 25% |
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