The first retrospective monograph on photographer Jonathan Becker one of the great visual
storytellers of our time Over the course of five decades Jonathan Becker has produced a body
of evocative photographic work that documents lives of the twentieth-century beau monde. A
protégé of legendary Parisian photographer Brassaï and a longtime contributor to Vanity Fair
Becker's work provides a link between fine-art photography and the notion of the photographer
as social observer. Bringing together commissioned and personal work this stunning collection
presents more than 200 images from across Becker's career charting his journeys in New York
Paris London and Buenos Aires from the 1970s to the 2010s. Portraits of artists Ed Ruscha
and Cindy Sherman writers Arthur Miller and Eudora Welty musicians David Bowie and Mick
Jagger and others reveal Becker's exceptional eye and astute psychological observations. The
monograph includes an introductory text by the book's editor Mark Holborn along with a
narrative text by Becker about his life travels and encounters with some of the most
well-known figures in the twentieth century. Brilliantly reproduced and housed in a cloth case
this luxurious collection is a captivating and essential book that reveals Becker as one of the
premier chroniclers of our time. Includes Becker's portraits of figures such as: Peter Beard
HRH King Charles III Fran Lebowitz Robert Mapplethorpe Arthur Miller Jackie O. Gwyneth
Paltrow Cindy Sherman André Leon Talley François Truffaut Gloria Vanderbilt Gore Vidal
Diana Vreeland Andy Warhol and many more.
