Red-hot Hollywood director Brett Ratner (Rush Hour I and II, Red Dragon and the forthcoming Superman), lives in Ingrid Bergram's old Hillhaven Lodge, where he houses his old-fashioned b/w photo booth. Into this booth Ratner has enticed a cornucopia of white-hot celebrities, personalities and legends, all of whom voluntarily vogued, posed and made silly faces without the help of stylists and makeup artist. The result is a hilarious and revealing look at such people as Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Liv Tyler, Colin Farrell, Mariah Carey, Edward Norton and Salmay Hayek and more.
Allan Carr was Hollywoods premier party-thrower during the towns most hedonistic era the cocaine-addled, sexually indulgent 1970s. Hosting outrageous soirees with names like the Mick Jagger/Cycle Sluts Party and masterminding such lavishly themed opening nights as the Tommy/New York City subway premiere, it was Carr, an obese, caftan-wearing producer the ultimate outsider who first brought movie stars and rock stars, gays and straights, Old and New Hollywood together. From the stunning success of Grease and La Cage aux Folles to the spectacular failure of the Village Peoples Cant Stop the Music, as a producer Carrs was a rollercoaster of a career punctuated by major hits and phenomenal flops none more disastrous than the Academy Awards show he produced featuring a tone-deaf Rob Lowe serenading Snow White, a fiasco that made Carr an outcast, and is still widely considered to be the worst Oscars ever. Tracing Carrs excess-laden rise and tragic fall and sparing no one along the way Party Animals provides a sizzling, candid, behind-the-scenes look at Hollywoods most infamous period.
THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER 'Explosive' The Sun 'Accounts from insiders who have never spoken before' The Times 'Bombshell' The Mirror The British Royal Family believed that the dizzy success of the Sussex wedding, watched and celebrated around the world, was the beginning of a new era for the Windsors. Yet, within one tumultuous year, the dream became a nightmare. In the aftermath of the infamous Megxit split and the Oprah Winfrey interview, the Royal Family's fate seems persistently threatened. As Meghan and Harry's much-trailed Netflix documentary finally airs, the public remains puzzled. Meghan's success has alternatively won praise, bewildered and outraged. Confused by the Sussexes' slick publicity, few understand the real Meghan Markle. What lies ahead for Meghan? And what has happened to the family she married into? Can the Windsors restore their reputation? With extensive research, expert sourcing and interviews from insiders who have never spoken before, Tom Bower, Britain's leading investigative biographer, unpicks the tangled web of courtroom drama, courtier politics and thwarted childhood dreams to uncover an astonishing story of love, betrayal, secrets and revenge.
Palm Beach People is a dazzling portraitand insider's view of a fabled andexclusive resort community and itshigh-profile denizens, as seen throughthe lens of master photographer HarryBenson and the words of societycolumnist Hilary Geary Ross. Ross and Benson's critically acclaimedfirst project, the coffee-table book, NewYork, New York, provided readers with aninside look at the homes and portraitsof New York City's movers and shakers.In this beautiful, deluxe-size follow-up,Palm Beach People, Benson and Ross givethe reader a grand tour of America'smost glamorous watering hole. You'llmeet everyone from captains of industry,politicians, movie stars, artists, and bestsellingauthors to celebrated athletesand society doyenne, all photographedin their exquisite private oases, oftenarchitectural masterpieces, or in other oftheir favorite Palm Beach settings. Palm Beach People captures theessence of America's most exclusiveenclave, from the early 70s to today,in hundreds of color and black-and-whitephotographs complimented byrevealing captions. Subjects includethe Duke and Duchess of Marlborough;former Canadian Prime Minister BrianMulroney and his wife Mila; Marie-JoseeKravis; members of the Fanjul family;Judy and Alfred Taubman; GeorginaBloomberg; Pauline Pitt; Mrs. HenryFord; Leonard Lauder; Tommy LeeJones; David Koch; Arriana and DixonBoardman; Tatiana Smith; Mrs. WinstonChurchill; Brooke Shields; Anne Slater;and many, many more.
In 1925 Siberian immigrant Anatol Josepho had an idea for a curtain-enclosed booth where people could take affordable portraits anonymously and automatically. The photobooth was born. This book presents over 700 photobooth pictures from the last 75 years, a portrait of everyday people and a testament to the ongoing fascination with both the process and the result.
Mommieis a remarkable photographic portrait of three generations of women in the family of photographer Arlene Gottfried and an intimate story of the inevitable passage of time and aging. Pictured within, we are introduced to Gottfried's 100 year old immigrant grandmother, fragile mother, and reluctant sister over the breathtaking course of 35 years. An artist turning their eye on their own immediate family is a well explored theme, but Gottfried has achieved the sublime with a multi-decade long commitment to document the intimate lives of her nearest kin. Gottfried succeeds in creating a complete twentieth century portrait of four lives inextricably interwoven through relation, sickness, need, love, and the absence of her father-who passed away while Arlene was still young. Living as many mid-century Jewish New York families did, the Gottfrieds were not wealthy and lacked any trappings of luxury. Close examination of their world on Avenue A in Manhattan's Lower East Side reveals a dimly lit small apartment, cartons of budget saltines and groceries, chipped paint, damaged floor tiles, guarded loose change, and well worn clothes - details natural to the lives of many families of immigrants in New York. Mommieis testament to the passage of time, changes in the generations, losing loved ones and a familial experience at once both similar and unique to all.
This iconic volume features the most exquisite photographs ever taken of America's legendary First Lady. A sumptuous, oversized edition, this 272-page book includes more than 250 glamorous, dramatic and intimate images taken throughout her life, many never published before. Bringing readers into her exclusive and priveleged world, Jackie: a Life in Pictures begins with her upper class upbrining in the '30s and '40s and goes on to cover her courtship and marriage to JFK in 1953 and life as a politician's wife, through to her post-JFK days as the wife of Aristotle Onassis.
They left in the middle of the night—often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search of freedom. In Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images following a route from the cotton plantations of central Louisiana, through the cypress swamps of Mississippi and the plains of Indiana, north to the Canadian border— a path of nearly fourteen hundred miles. The culmination of a ten-year research quest, Through Darkness to Light imagines a journey along the Underground Railroad as it might have appeared to any freedom seeker. Framing the powerful visual narrative is an introduction by Michna-Bales; a foreword by noted politician, pastor, and civil rights activist Andrew J. Young; and essays by Fergus M. Bordewich, Robert F. Darden, and Eric R. Jackson.
