On Filmsets and Other Locations

Madonna graces the cover of this interesting upcoming book published by Steidl.

Due May 2009, On Filmsets and Other Locations is a hardcover photography book by Jurgen Vollmer of photos he took on various film sets over the years.

Jürgen Vollmerwas born in Hamburg, Germany, but has spent his career as a photographer – from 1961 until 2006 –
entirely abroad, mainly in New York and Paris. He took pictures of Madonna on the Who’s That Girl set and he’s chosen a gorgeous pic of her for the cover of his book.

The first part of the volume, On Filmsets, consists of a series on two dozen American and a dozen French filmsets over the past four decades. The filmstars include among many others Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Sean Connery, Heath Ledger, Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert and Jeanne Moreau. The portraits of directors include among others Francis Ford Coppola, Tony Scott, Roman Polanski, Barbra Streisand and Alain Resnais. Prominently featured are photos of Rudolf Nureyev, taken in 1966 during the filming of a ballet film.

The second part of the book, On Other Locations, are photographs taken between 1961 and 1996, of local people in different countries, among them Turks, Sicilians, Egyptians and Senegalese as well as portraits of a few famous people, like John Lennon in Hamburg and William Burroughs in New York.

On Filmsets and Other Locations
Text by Jürgen Vollmer
183 pages, 76 colour plates, 95 black & white plates
24 cm x 33 cm
Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket
Steidl
ISBN: ISBN 978-3-86521-598-7
Publication date: May 2009

Thanks to Jamesy.