Tag Archives: Steve Schapiro
Terry O’Neill: Close and Candid
My favorite photography book of 2013 was probably Steve Schapiro’s Taxi Driver, but one of the most surprising was Terry O’Neill’s eponymous career retrospective published by ACC Editions. O’Neill first made his mark in the 1960′s. The young British photographer snapped everyone from The Beatles to The Stones to Janis Joplin to Jean Luc Godard’s [...]
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Tagged 1960's, ACC Editions, Anna Karina, Beatles, Dylan Jones, Irish Examiner, Janis Joplin, Jean-Luc Godard, Steve Schapiro, Taxi Driver, Terry O'Neill, The Stones
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Avenging Images: Steve Schapiro’s Taxi Driver
Of all the brilliant gems of 1970′s America’s New Hollywood Cinema, Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver may be the grimiest and goriest. Beyond Paul Schrader’s loneliness-crazed script or Scorsese’s street-level shooting, it’s Robert DeNiro’s portrait of the mohawked, gun-wielding avenger Travis Bickle that continues to make this film crackle with energy and danger decades later. Steve [...]
Posted in Books, Cinema
Tagged Jodi Foster, Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Robert DeNiro, Steve Schapiro, Taschen, Taxi Driver, Times Square
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