John Cassavetes: Autoportraits
(English title: John Cassavetes: Behind the Scenes)
Introduction and text by Ray Carney
Preface by Andre Labarthe
Photos by Sam Shaw and Larry Shaw
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A luscious, coffee-table sized
photographic extravaganza. The most complete photographic presentation
of Cassavetes’ life and
work ever published. Ray Carney wrote the text and introduction. Larry
and Sam Shaw provided the 170 photographs that illustrate the book, many
in color and most a full page in size. 191 oversized pages.
This book was published
in French in the Editions de l’Etoile series
by Cahiers du cinèma in October 1992. It is still in print in France,
but no English-language edition has been published. It is available
at foreign language bookstores in the United States and England.
Comments on Ray Carney's John Cassavetes: Autoportraits
The
Unofficial John Cassavetes Page |
"A
beautiful coffee-table sized book of b&w and color photographs of
the Cassavetes' friends and family. Text and introduction by Ray Carney. Photos
by Sam and Larry Shaw, and beautiful they are too. An expensive but essential
book. Literally do anything to own this book!"
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Ray
Carney |
“I
spent five years writing letters, making phone calls, and visiting
New York editors attempting to persuade an American publisher
to print this book, but the response was always the same – If
it were Woody Allen or Oliver Stone, it would be different; but
it’s Cassavetes, for gosh sake. We just can’t afford
to take the risk! The book is the best-selling Cassavetes
volume of all time, with more than 30,000 copies sold in France
alone. But I guess it just can’t happen in America. After
all, he’s not Woody Allen, and American publishing is about
entertainment and profit, not about art, life, and truth.”
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