Russell "Russ" Melcher came to Europe and photographed the
superstars of the time, either during their visits to Paris and
France or accompanied them on worldwide trips. He witnessed many
world events from film festivals to terrorist attacks. Among the
portrayed were royal families like the Windsors, Grace Kelly &
the Monegasques, as well as film legends like Romy Schneider, Alain
Delon, Burt Lancaster, Erol Flynn, Alfred Hitchcock, Sofia Loren,
Brigitte Bardot, and music legends like Frank Sinatra, Elvis
Presley, Harry Belafonte, and Yves Montand. In addition, there were
political greats such as Charles DeGaulle, Fidel Castro, Nikita
Khrushchev, the Shah of Persia, American presidents, and many more.
Later Russ Melcher became director of the legendary photo agency
MAGNUM and worked with photo legends Robert Capa, Henry
Cartier-Bresson, Ian Berry, Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, to name
a few. This large-format photo book is about the stories behind the
images and personalities. Entertaining, humorous, but also
profound, Russ describes his way to the perfect photo, his
individual perspective, up to the importance of photographic
storytelling of this 'Golden Age of Photojournalism'. Russ Melcher
is an important witness to that time, but also an American
entertainer in Paris who encouraged his protagonists to do things
that few photographers could manage, a true and trusted partner to
the stars of that era through the ages. The book is organised
according to the two decades and Russell's encounters with the
stars of the time. Text in English and German.
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