LACOMBE: ANIMA/PERSONA

Lacombe anima l persona In her second book, acclaimed photographerBrigitte Lacombe offers revelatory portraits of Barack Obama, Brice Marden,Joan Didion, Kate Winslet, Daniel Day-Lewis, Miuccia Prada, and many of her most influentialcontemporaries. Lacombe's honest and intelligent collection of portraits isa documentation of artists, writers, directors, actors, and politicalfigures. These compelling photographs, in color and black and white,capture private and public moments, intimate and theatrical. Somemoments include: Bob Dylan on his ranch in Malibu (2004), Nelson Mandela inJohannesburg (2002), Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest in Myanmar (1996),David Mamet writing in his Vermont cabin (1997), a direct Richard Avedon(2001), Louise Bourgeois in pigtails (1995), Bruce Nauman at his ranchoutside Santa Fe (1998), Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman on the set ofKramer vs. Kramer (1979), Martin Scorsese directing Leonardo DiCaprio inThe Aviator (2003), and in The Departed (2006), Robert Redford as adirector on Ordinary People (1979), President Clinton traveling in Africafor his foundation (2007), Claude Levi-Strauss at the College de France(1999), and the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India (2003).