Description

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Taxi Driver has long been regarded as a cinematic milestone, and Robert DeNiro's portrait of a trigger-happy psychopath with a mohawk is widely believed to be one of the greatest performances ever filmed. Time magazine includes the film in its list of 100 Greatest Movies, saying: "The power of Scorsese's filmmaking grows ever more punishing with the passage of time."Steve Schapiro--whose photographs were featured in TASCHEN's Godfather Family Album--was the special photographer on the set of Taxi Driver, capturing the film's most intense and violent moments from behind the scenes. This book--more than a film-still book, rather a pure photo book in its own right--features hundreds of unseen images selected from Schapiro's archives, painting a chilling portrait of a deranged gunman in the angry climate of the post-Vietnam era.

With a foreword by Martin Scorsese First published in TASCHEN's limited edition--now available in this standard TASCHEN edition

About the Author

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The photographer:

Steve Schapiro is a distinguished journalistic photographer whose pictures have graced the covers of "Vanity Fair, ""Time, "" Sports Illustrated, Life, Look, Paris Match," and "People," and are found in many museum collections. He has published four books of his work, "American ""Edge," "Schapiro's Heroes, The Godfather Family Album "and "Taxi Driver." In Hollywood he has worked on more than 200 motion pictures; his most famous film posters are for" Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver, Parenthood, "and "The Godfather Part III."

The editor:

Paul Duncan has edited 50 film books for TASCHEN, including the award-winning "The Ingmar Bergman Archives," and authored "Alfred Hitchcock" and "Stanley Kubrick" in the Film Series.