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In one of photography’s greatest platonic love affairs, Hollywood portraitist Bob Willoughby captures Audrey Hepburn in the many facets of her beauty, elegance, and talent. Over 10 years, his tender, poised images capture the star from her debut in 1953 to My Fair Lady, showing her on set, preparing for a scene, interacting with actors and directors, and returning to her private life.
Limited Collector’s Edition of 1,000 copies, numbered and signed by Bob Willoughby
Limited Collector’s Edition of 1,000 copies, numbered and signed by Bob Willoughby
Edition of 1,000Hardcover in clamshell box, 12.2 x 15.3 in., 14.21 lb, 282 pages
“The lensman’s mastery of the photographic film still is in full evidence, documenting Hepburn as she worked on some of her most celebrated films..." ”
“Audrey Hepburn's timeless style continues to inspire [in] Bob Willoughby: Audrey." ”
“Un livre sublime...Un hommage tout en images d’un homme subjugué, tombé sous le charme d’une femme exceptionnelle que «Dieu avait créé pour faire fondre le cœur des mortels».”
“Bob Willoughby: Audrey Hepburn, capture[s] the star in such a personal way as to illustrate how much more iconic she could be when just being herself. Willoughby’s book is a gift to those rabid Audrey lovers.”
“Brillante sous toutes les facettes…Un voyage en images long de treize ans, dans l’intimité d’une icône comme il n’en existe plus.”
“Audrey Hepburn en pleine lumière. Sourire radieux et poids plume... La surprise opère encore et encore, au fil de ces photographies documentaires, malicieuses, intimistes, fraîches comme la jeunesse et désormais historiques de celle qui fut si naturellement My Fair Lady (1929-1993).”
“Audrey Hepburn, la modernité d'une irrésistible... un livre craquant, édité en série limitée, et peuplé d'images aussi légères qu'un nuage de blush par jour de grand vent ...”
“Tous ses portraits, réunis pour la première fois dans une magnifique édition numérotée resplendissent de cette grâce éblouissante. La drôle de frimousse y est chaque fois élégante et tendre, glamour et facétieuse.”
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Bob Willoughby. Audrey Hepburn, Photographs 1953–1966
1500Our Fair Lady
A photographic love affair
In his distinguished career as a Hollywood photographer, Bob Willoughby captured Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and Jane Fonda, but remains unequivocal about his favorite subject: Audrey Kathleen Ruston, later Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston, best known as Audrey Hepburn. Willoughby was called in to shoot the new starlet one morning shortly after she arrived in Hollywood in 1953. It was a humdrum commission for the portraitist often credited with having perfected the photojournalistic movie still, but when he met the Belgian-born beauty, Willoughby was enraptured. “She took my hand like...well a princess, and dazzled me with that smile that God designed to melt mortal men’s hearts,” he recalls.
As Hepburn’s career soared following her Oscar-winning US debut in Roman Holiday, Willoughby became a trusted friend, framing her working and home life. His historic, perfectionist, tender photographs seek out the many facets of Hepburn’s beauty and elegance, as she progresses from her debut to her career high of My Fair Lady in 1963. Willoughby’s studies, showing her on set, preparing for a scene, interacting with actors and directors, and returning to her private life, comprise one of photography’s great platonic love affairs and an unrivaled record of one of the 20th century’s touchstone beauties.
As Hepburn’s career soared following her Oscar-winning US debut in Roman Holiday, Willoughby became a trusted friend, framing her working and home life. His historic, perfectionist, tender photographs seek out the many facets of Hepburn’s beauty and elegance, as she progresses from her debut to her career high of My Fair Lady in 1963. Willoughby’s studies, showing her on set, preparing for a scene, interacting with actors and directors, and returning to her private life, comprise one of photography’s great platonic love affairs and an unrivaled record of one of the 20th century’s touchstone beauties.
The photographer
Bob Willoughby (1927-2009) took his first photo at the age of twelve. By 1954 his exhibitions of photographs of jazz musicians and dancers led to a contract with Globe Photos, followed by work at Harper's Bazaar. After shooting Judy Garland during the filming of A Star is Born he became the first "unit photographer"—hired specifically by movie studios to take on-set promotional "stills". The author of numerous books on photography, he lived his last years in Vence, France.
Bob Willoughby. Audrey Hepburn, Photographs 1953–1966
Edition of 1,000Hardcover in clamshell box, 31 x 38.8 cm, 6.45 kg, 282 pagesISBN 978-3-8365-1889-5
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