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.
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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. 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.
