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‘I think Tom Cruise was annoyed with Nicole Kidman that night’: Jonathan Becker on photographing the world’s biggest stars
He has captured Cruise and Kidman partying, the ‘charm’ of Trump, a disgruntled Bowie, and a deathly Mapplethorpe. As the ex New York cabbie releases a book of his extraordinary pictures, he recalls a bygone age when ‘the Kardashians would be laughed off the planet’
He moved to California to avoid a $500 spaghetti bill from Elaine’s restaurant in New York, where he had shot Paul Simon and Andy Warhol Harvey Weinstein looms behind actor Léa Seydoux at fancy London club Annabel’s in 2015. All rights reserved“These are figures from a vanished world,” the book’s editor, Mark Holborn, writes in its intro; and, speaking to Becker by video from his cabin on an island in Maine, it does feel like a surreal catalogue of late 20th and early 21st-century grandees. His backstory rattles through moves to Paris – Brassaï became an early mentor – and California, to avoid a $500 spaghetti bill from the famous Elaine’s restaurant in New York, where he had used the kitchen to take portraits of Paul Simon and Andy Warhol.
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