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(Short description)
Her second book, acclaimed photographer Brigitte Lacombe offers revelatory portraits of Barack Obama, Brice Marden, Joan Didion, Kate Winslet, Daniel Day-Lewis, Miuccia Prada, and many of her most influential contemporaries. Lacombe's honest and intelligent collection of portraits is a documentation of artists, writers, directors, actors, and political figures. These compelling photographs, in color and black and white, capture private and public moments, intimate and theatrical. Some moments include: Bob Dylan on his ranch in Malibu (2004), Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg (2002), Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest in Myanmar (1996), David Mamet writing in his Vermont cabin (1997), a direct Richard Avedon (2001), Louise Bourgeois in pigtails (1995), Bruce Nauman at his ranch outside Santa Fe (1998), Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman on the set of Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Martin Scorsese directing Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator (2003), and in The Departed (2006), Robert Redford as a director on Ordinary People (1979), President Clinton traveling in Africa for his foundation (2007), Claude Levi-Strauss at the College de France (1999), and the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India (2003).
(Author portrait)
Lacombe, Brigitte
Born and raised in France, Lacombe began her photographic career in 1975, on assignment at the Cannes Film Festival. From the beginning of her career she had privileged and rare access to the world of film, working on Alan Pakula's All the President's Men (1975), and Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1976). In 1985, for seven years, she became the first staff photographer for the Lincoln Center Theater. Since its first issue in 1987, she has traveled the world for Condé Nast Traveler. In 2000 Lacombe won the Eisenstaedt Award for travel photography. Lacombe's work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, French Vogue, GQ, and numerous other publications. Her passions are portraits and travel.
