Gay Talese. Phil Stern. Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

by Gay Talese, Phil Stern (Photographer)

Overview

Gay Talese’s crystalline portrait of Frank Sinatra combined faithful fact with vivid storytelling in a triumph of New Journalism. It is now published alongside notes and correspondence from the author’s archives and photographs from Phil Stern—the only photographer granted access to Sinatra over an extraordinary four decade period....

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783836588294
Publisher:	TASCHEN
Publication date:	06/24/2021
Edition description:	Bilingual Edition
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	9.29(w) x 13.11(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Gay Talese joined the staff of The New York Times in 1955 and remained there for a decade. During the 1960s and 1970s he contributed many articles to magazines, principally Esquire. Talese is the best-selling author of eleven books including Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Honor Thy Father, and A Writer’s Life. He lives in New York City.

Phil Stern (1919–2014) was one of the preeminent photographers of Hollywood’s golden age, shooting for Look, Life, and Colliers, and working as a “special photographer” on the set of over 100 feature films, including Some Like It Hot, West Side Story, and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Editorial Reviews

One of the greatest celebrity portraits ever written.

GQ

Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel—only worse. For the common cold robs Sinatra of that uninsurable jewel, his voice, cutting into the core of his confidence.

Gay Talese