The Godfather Family Album, Art Edition A

An offer you can't refuse

Never-before-seen photos of Coppola's masterpiece


Selections from Steve Schapiro's photographs provide an insider's view of the making of the legendary trilogy. Full leather cover in a clamshell box. This Art Edition is limited to 100 numbered copies, each signed by Steve Schapiro, and comes with a pigment print on Museo Portfolio Rag paper: Don Vito Corleone: A Man of Reason (Marlon Brando) (14 x 11 in. / 35.56 x 27.94 cm).

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Don Vito Corleone: A Man of Reason (Marlon Brando)
Pigment print, limited to 100 numbered copies, each signed by Steve Schapiro


Imagine the experience of witnessing renowned actors as they made their most memorable performances. Steve Schapiro has had such a privilege as special photographer on some of American cinema’s most beloved movies. For Francis Ford Coppola's Godfather trilogy, Schapiro immortalized actors such as Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Diane Keaton. His photographs of the Godfather holding the cat and the whisper in the Godfather’s ear have become iconic images known throughout the world. Brought together in a book for the first time is a vast selection of images from all three Godfather films, reproduced from Schapiro’s original negatives.

This lavish, limited edition book, which also includes background articles and interviews about the films, contains over 400 color and black & white images, most of which have never been published before. It allows fans a privileged peek behind the scenes at the making of film history and it truly is a once-in-a-lifetime offer you can’t refuse.

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 four books of his work, American Edge, Schapiro's Heroes, The Godfather Family Album and Taxi Driver. 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.

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, Art Edition A

Steve Schapiro, Paul Duncan
Hardcover in a clamshell box, 11.4 x 17.3 in., 444 pages, $ 6000
  • Reviews
"TASCHEN's new, super-limited book documents the making of what I would argue is one of the best film series ever (the first two anyway). Each of the 100 "art edition" copies include over 400 never-before-seen images from Steve Schapiro as well as an 11x14 print (see below) signed by Schapiro himself. 444 pages full of interviews, essays and the moments that defined some of the best lines and images in film history. Only $1,800, so get two." Ironsider.blogspot.com, Dover, United Kingdom
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