Taxi Driver - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 383654198X ISBN 13: 9783836541985

Publisher: Taschen America Llc, 2013

Synopsis

Taxi Driver has long been regarded as a cinematic milestone, and Robert DeNiro’s portrait of a trigger-happy psychopath with a mohawk is widely believed to be one of the greatest performances ever filmed. Time magazine includes the film in its list of 100 Greatest Movies, saying: “The power of Scorsese’s filmmaking grows ever more punishing with the passage of time.”Steve Schapiro―whose photographs were featured in TASCHEN’s Godfather Family Album―was the special photographer on the set of Taxi Driver, capturing the film’s most intense and violent moments from behind the scenes. This book―more than a film-still book, rather a pure photo book in its own right―features hundreds of unseen images selected from Schapiro’s archives, painting a chilling portrait of a deranged gunman in the angry climate of the post-Vietnam era.

With a foreword by Martin Scorsese!First published in TASCHEN’s limited edition―now available in this standard TASCHEN edition

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Duncan is a film historian whose TASCHEN books include The James Bond Archives, The Charlie Chaplin Archives, The Godfather Family Album, Taxi Driver, Film Noir, and Horror Cinema, as well as publications on film directors, film genres, movie stars, and film posters.

American photojournalist Steve Schapiro has documented six decades of American culture, from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the presidential campaign of Robert F. Kennedy to Andy Warhol’s Factory and the filming of The Godfather trilogy. He has published a dozen books of his photographs, has exhibited his work in shows from Los Angeles to Moscow, and is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, among others.

Review:

"The next best thing to actually travelling back in time to the film shoot in New York in 1975."

“An absorbing on-set portrait.”

About this edition

• Publisher: Taschen America Llc
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 383654198X
• ISBN 13: 9783836541985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 399
• Editor: Duncan Paul