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Anima / Persona
Steidl Publishing
July 2009
On Sale: June 30, 2009
408 pages
ISBN: 3865216447
EAN: 9783865216441
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Photography
In 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 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).
 Media BuzzCharlie Rose - July 28, 2009
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