Description
Celebrities rule the modern world, and following close behind them are the paparazzi, fueling the media’s endless fascination with the rich and famous, while they themselves keep a low profile, fading chameleon-like into the background.
For more than forty years, Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain have photographed movie stars and models, rock stars and royalty. Over the decades, they’ve honed the instincts required to capture the moment when a glance, a pose, and a setting are most perfectly matched. From London to Paris, Hollywood to Cannes, here is a star-studded selection of people who live their lives in the spotlight, sometimes welcoming the camera, sometimes pursued by it. Elizabeth Taylor, Grace Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Kate Moss are among the iconic faces glimpsed at unguarded moments, in encounters that can be intimate, witty, or confrontational.
Reviews
This collection of black-and-white images—capturing the likes of Grace Kelly, Michael Jackson, and Kate Moss—offers a sneak peek into the lives of the famous.
— Lifestyle Mirror
Amid today’s proliferation of celebrity candids, Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain’s images of Elizabeth Taylor, Michael Jackson, Kate Moss and others stand out as trenchant statements on fame.
— Time Magazine
400 color illustrations demonstrate the use of innovative digital technology by artists.
— Choice
Reveals an era of celebrity when the paparazzi still used film and pushed the medium to its limits.
— THE Magazine
These images changed the approach to street photography and photojournalism as it was known previously…modern paparazzi can only hope to compare.
— The Photo Review
Contributors
Bruno Mouron
Author
Bruno Mouron is a Paris-based photo-reporter and co-founder of the agency Sphinx.
Pascal Rostain
Author
Pascal Rostain is a Paris-based photo-reporter and co-founder of the agency Sphinx.
