SCHAPIRO STEVE

(H/B) THE GODFATHER FAMILY ALBUM
When I first arrived on the set of "The Godfather" for a scene in New York's Lower East Side, I had already heard the rumors that Marlon Brando was in bad health. The streets and surrounding tenements were teeming with onlookers; even the fire escapes were crammed with children and their grandmothers. Everyone, it seemed, wanted to catch a glimpse of the man who had been chosen to play Don Vito Corleone. I had convinced "Life" magazine to do a "guaranteed" cover story on the "Godfather" film -something they did not ordinarily do- provided ...
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(H/B) TAXI DRIVER
You talkin' to me? Previously unseen photographs from Scorsese's masterpiece. 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...
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(H/B) THE GODFATHER FAMILY ALBUM
(. . .) As a photographer, sometimes you just need to be a fly on the wall. Shooting the movie's opening sequence in Don Corleone's office meant working with a blimp (a metal box, sponge-foamed inside to muffle the still camera's clicks), or waiting until the scene was finished so that it could be replayed for the still camera. My two most memorable images came from within those doors: Brando holding the cat, and Salvatore Corsitto, as Bonasera, whispering into the don's ear. Both photographs have been used over and over again to iconize t...
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