About the Book
Rose Hartman is a legend. An omnipresent force on the New York City social scene, Rose stands as one of the most prolific photographers of our age. As a woman photographer, Rose has jumped over every hurdle in a male-dominated world to create a huge body of work, documenting the demimonde of fame and glamour in the centre of world culture. If you are famous, she has most likely photographed you, whether you know her well or not at all. Her ground-breaking photography straddles the boundaries between street photography, portraiture and documentary photography. The images included in this book are prime selections of couples - artists and muses; designers and muses; family; mothers and children; pets; friendships; models and friends; lovers; marriages - photographed by Rose over the years, and yet they are far more than pictures of two people. In each and every photograph, Rose is the third and most critical component. She is the director of the final cut. Thanks to her impeccable timing and placement, Rose opts to trip the shutter at just the right moment, capturing a critical instant in a conversation - a pose, a gesture - so as to present a story about two people from the world of popular culture. Couples featured include: Jerry Hall and Annie Leibovitz, Bob Mackie and Cher, Claudia Schiffer and Valentino, Jean Paul Gautier and Lauren Bacall, Donatella Versace and Naomi Campbell, Peter and Jane Fonda, Bianca and Jade Jagger, Lily and Kate Moss, Sean Lennon and Yoko Ono, Liz Taylor and her dog, Andy Warhol and Lou Reed, Hugh Grant and Elizabeth Hurley, Robert Wolders and Audrey Hepburn, Iman and David Bowie, Antonio Banderas and Melanie Griffith, Kelly and Calvin Klein, Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown. SELLING POINTS: . Chronicling a world of beauty and style, photographer Rose Hartman has captured fashion's trendsetters for three decades, and in so doing has helped to define what we remember most about glamour and those who create it 106 colour, 15 b/w
About the Author :
Rose Hartman was born in Manhattan's East Village. She started patrolling the night scene in 1975 as an arts and society columnist at the SoHo Weekly News. Her first big break was a photo shoot of Joan Hemingway's wedding in Sun Valley, Idaho where she managed to induce Ernest Hemingway's wife, Mary, to pose for her relaxing in a hammock. Her photos have been published in Vogue, Glamour, Vanity Fair, Art & Auction, Art News, Harpers Bazaar, Panorama, Der Spiegel, Elle, and many other magazines. Her first book, Birds of Paradise: An Intimate View of the New York Fashion World (Delacorte Press), remains recognized as much as a collection of photographs, as a history of the era it records.
Review :
Lots of great things come in twos, which is why photographer Rose Hartman is publishing Incomparable Couples (ACC Editions), a stylish compendium overflowing with glamour, diamonds, and Chanel hoop earrings. -- Chiara Marinai Vanity Fair, February 13, 2015 [Hartman's] her groundbreaking photography, we are reminded, straddles the boundaries of street, paparazzi, portrait, and documentary photography. -- Daniel Cappello Quest, March 2015 Hartman is releasing some of her best work in a new book highlighting fashion's greatest couples-designers and muses, mothers and children, fashion friends, lovers and model cliques...the new must-have coffee table book. -- Jennifer Algoo Harper's Bazaar The photos of duos in her new book are captured in this raw, un-posed tactic she's used to create an almost documentary-style, street photography aesthetic amid the glamour and polish. -- Ross Kenneth Urken, L'Uomo Vogue March 5, 2015 Rose Hartman is a legend. -- Marsin, Musee Magazine March 9, 2015 Incomparable Couples depicts the sort of Manhattan power pairings that rarely exist nowadays. -- Zachary Weiss The Observer, March 13, 2015 There was an age, pre-TMZ, when celebrity couples telegraphed an air of glamorous mystery. Photographer Rose Hartman reminisces on such famous pairings in her latest tome, Incomparable Couples. Gordon Parks and Gloria Vanderbilt, Carlos Souza and Lorenzo Villarini in clown suits at Studio 54, the famous and infamous-they're all here. Elle, March 2015 A love note to New York City compliments of Rose Hartman. She offers us a scrapbook of sorts that chronicles so many "couples "who were part of what made New York City such a wondrous place-especially after dark. It is a compilation spanning the greatest and most social decades (70s-90s) of the city. New York Journal of Books For the past three decades, Rose Hartman has photographed the rich and the famous in the most legendary settings ranging from Studio 54 to the Museum's Costume Institute with her pictures appearing in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair and The New York Times. Moreover, her images have been exhibited in some of the most prestigious museums and galleries in the United States including the Museum of the City of N.Y., and the Whitney. March 11, 2015 The book dazzles with celebrity images snapped spur of the moment rather than posed: Movement is captured before it goes still. FSHN Magazine, March 13, 2015 Reading Rose Hartman's new book, Incomparable Couples, is like taking a trip down memory lane revisiting the glamorous and celebrated personalities who defined the fashion and social trendsetter era for three decades. The book is populated by people we knew and people we wish we knew. Nostalgia tugs at our hearts as we review the pages of engaging couples at the prime of their celebrity. -- Polly Guerin, Polly Talks March 18, 2015 The book will become an amazing reminder of New York City and will require many return visits for years to come. -- Jeffrey Felner New York Journal of Books, March 31, 2015 ...eye candy for celebrity-obsessed brides- and grooms-to-be looking to make their own big-day entrance. -- Shelby Wax Martha Stewart Weddings, June 23, 2015 Hartman is able to persuade her subjects to let their guard down and allow their true selves to shine through the film. -- Johanna Li DuJour
