Taschen The Godfather Family Album. 40 Series

"I'm Gonna Make Him An Offer He Can't Refuse"

Steve Schapiro had the remarkable experience of witnessing legendary actors give some of their most memorable performances; Schapiro immortalised Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Caan, Robert Duvall and Diane Keaton in photographs that have since become iconic images, instantly recognisable and endlessly imitated. Gathered together in this book are Schapiro's finest photographs from all three Godfather films, lovingly reproduced from the original negatives, with contextual essays and interviews covering the trilogy in its entirety, this book contains over 300 colour and black-and-white images. Schapiro's images take us behind the scenes of this epic and inimitable cinematic saga, revealing the director's working process, capturing the moods and personalities involved, and providing an insight into the making of film history. American photojournalist Steve Schapiro has documented six decades of American culture, from the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign to Andy Warhol's Factory and the making of The Godfather trilogy. He has published a dozen books of his photographs, exhibited his work from Los Angeles to Moscow, and is represented in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, among others.