Dames Women with Attiude & Initiative

'A candyfloss feast of Ivana Trump and anything with more feathers, sequins and attitude than Liberace's codpiece' - Tatler 'Dazzling portraits of female movers and shakers' - Glamour Eric Boman's Dames is portrait photography at its most incisive and fun. This delicious collection includes a host(ess) of movers and shakers in the worlds of society, fashion, art, journalism, politics and entertainment. Boman's easy rapport with his formidable subjects is evidenced by his delightful, at times even mischievous, photographs. Here we see Annette Bening emerging as a bright young star, Joan Rivers hamming, a pensive Paloma Picasso, the sage beauty of Catherine Deneuve, a saucy Jackie Collins, and Anna Wintour beaming. He has captured the fabulousness of Ivana Trump, the allure of Bianca Jagger and the magnetism of C. Z. Guest. Celebrity insider and Vanity Fair special correspondent Bob Colacello writes about these women of wealth and taste and achievement, and about Eric Boman from the vantage of over thirty years of friendship - they met at Warhol's Factory in 1973. Eric Boman worked in London and Paris as an illustrator, also designing textiles, wallpaper and china. In 1972, he took up photography: fashion, beauty and, later, interiors, for Harper's & Queen, Vogue, Marie-Claire, Ritz and Andy Warhol's Interview. His book Blahnik by Boman, with an introduction by Paloma Picasso, is also published by Thames & Hudson in 2005. Bob Colacello has been a special correspondent for Vanity Fair since 1993. He is the author of, among other books, Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to the White House and Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up. Also of interest Blahnik by Boman: A Photographic Conversation A Chequered Past: My Visual Diary of the 60s and 70s by Peter Schlesinger See Thames & Hudsons full list of books on fashion