Blast from the Past

Famed photographer Brigitte Lacombe’s exciting new book, Lacombe Anima/Persona, is a glimpse of Hollywood cool and serious portraiture, featuring images of everyone from Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, and Miuccia Prada to a mix of well-known writers, artists, scientists, politicians, and more. With an introduction by Frank Rich, of The New York Times, Anima/Persona is a comprehensive showcase of Lacombe’s 30-plus years behind the lens.

Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith, Los Angeles, 1975.

Al Pacino fixes his hair on the set of Bobby Deerfield while Sydney Pollack waits, Lake Como, Italy, 1976.

Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall at Château de la Fourchette, near Amboise, France, 1996.

Bob Dylan strolls at Point Dume, in Malibu, California, 2004.

A contact sheet of Meryl Streep images taken in New York City, 1988.

François Truffaut and Steven Spielberg on the set of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Los Angeles, 1976.

Nicole Kidman costumes up for Cold Mountain in its Carpathian Mountains locale in Romania, 2002.