The Godfather Family Album

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"It's dangerous to be an honest man." —Michael Corleone, Godfather III

As special photographer on the sets and locations of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy, Steve Schapiro had the remarkable experience of witnessing legendary actors giving some of their most memorable performances. Schapiro immortalized Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Caan, Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton in photos that have since become iconic images, instantly recognisable and endlessly imitated. Gathered together for the first time in this book are Schapiro's finest photographs from all three Godfather films, lovingly reproduced from the original negatives. With contextual essays and interviews covering the trilogy in its entirety, this book contains over 400 color and black & white images.

Schapiro's images take us behind the scenes of this epic and inimitable cinematic saga, revealing the director's working process, capturing the moods and personalities involved, and providing insight into the making of movie history.

Previously restricted to 1,000 Limited Edition copies, this is the unlimited trade edition for cinephiles and 'family' members on a budget!

About the photographer:
Steve Schapiro is a distinguished journalistic photographer whose pictures have graced the covers of Vanity Fair, Time, Sports Illustrated, Life, Look, Paris Match, and People, and are found in many museum collections. He has published two books of his work, American Edge and Schapiro's Heroes. In Hollywood he has worked on more than 200 motion pictures; his most famous film posters are for Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver, Parenthood, and The Godfather Part III.

About the editor:
Paul Duncan has edited 50 film books for TASCHEN, including the award-winning The Ingmar Bergman Archives, and authored Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick in the Film Series.

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The Godfather Family Album

Steve Schapiro, Paul Duncan
Hardcover, 24.6 x 37.4 cm (9.7 x 14.7 in.), 528 pages
$ 69.99

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The Godfather Family Album
An interview with photographer Steve Schapiro. November 2008

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"Era il 1972 quando il già celebre regista italoamericano Francis Ford Coppola firmava il primo capitolo di una saga destinata a scrivere la storia del cinema. "Il Padrino" (tre Oscar: film, sceneggiatura e best actor Marlon Brando), magistrale ricostruzione di un'epoca e di una morale del crimine, di una struttura patriarcale più italiana che americana, rivive nelle oltre 500 pagine del volume "The Godfather Family Album" suggestivo dietro-le-quinte edito da TASCHEN con le fotografie di Steve Schapiro (che firma anche la prefazione) e un contributo scritto di Mario Puzo (autore del romanzo originale e dello script con Coppola)."
L'Uomo Vogue, Milano, Italy

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A Corleone scrapbook
National Post, United States, June 26, 2010

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	Coming soon Schapiro, Taxi Driver, Art Edition A (Robert de Niro) *The Art Edition (copies 1–100) is limited to just 100 signed and numbered copies, each with the original pigment print "Robert De Niro in his cab," Taxi Driver, New York 1975.*
	Coming soon Schapiro, Taxi Driver, Art Edition B (Jodie Foster) *The Art Edition (copies 101–200) is limited to just 100 signed and numbered copies, each with the original pigment print "Jodie Foster on the street," Taxi Driver, New York, 1975.*
	Coming soon Steve Schapiro, Taxi Driver Steve Schapiro was the special photographer on the set of Taxi Driver, the movie that made Robert DeNiro a star: and 95 percent of his photos were never published—until now. This edition is limited to 1.000 copies, numbered and signed by Steve Schapiro, and includes a foreword by Martin Scorsese.
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