Head Over Heels: Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman
A Love Affair in Words and Pictures
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3.0 • 2 Ratings
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- $30.99
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- $30.99
Publisher Description
An invitation to the private world of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, one of America’s most iconic couples, in a lavishly illustrated oversize photo book affectionately curated by their daughter Melissa Newman.
Their love story is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman became not only movie stars and stage actors, but also artistic collaborators, political activists, and philanthropists whose legacies are expansive and enduringly modern.
This visually immersive oversize book chronicles their romance through the photographs of an impressive list of contributors, including: Richard Avedon Sid Avery Ralph Crane Bruce Davidson John Engstead Leo Fuchs Milton H. Greene Philippe Halsman John R. Hamilton Leonard McCombe Gordon Parks Sanford Roth Roy Schatt Lawrence Schiller Sam Shaw Bradley Smith Stewart Stern David Sutton
These striking images—many rare and some never before published—are accompanied by snapshots, letters, handwritten notes, and family treasures. Together they beautifully illuminate the connection between two complex, passionate artists who opened their hearts and minds to each other for over half a century. This book is an homage to the possibility and power of love.
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Newman's mesmerizing debut gathers together photographs of the "achingly beautiful movie stars who happen to be my parents." After Joanne Woodward met Paul Newman on the set of the 1953 Broadway play Picnic (she thought he was "grossly untalented" at the time), they began a dynamic moviemaking partnership and storied relationship that lasted until Paul's death in 2008. In black-and-white photographs mostly from the 1950s and '60s, a playful, electric bond emerges that often jumps off the page, as in shots of Paul reclining on Joanne on a couch as both amusedly look at something out of frame; Joanne dancing in front of an enraptured Paul; and multiple photos of the pair by the family tree house, "a favorite trysting spot" and "a reminder that escape is always possible, and one doesn't have to go very far." In moments as mundane as sharing a cigarette or as glitzy as posing at a star-studded awards show, the couple appears continuously alight in their youth and beauty. Most affecting is the evident connection between the two, captured in their recurring looks of love, lust, and devotion. Throughout, Melissa Newman's spare, nostalgic commentary enriches the proceedings. It's an enchanting tribute to one of Hollywood's most mythologized couples.
Customer Reviews
A picture book
Don’t waste your $30. This is not a biography, just a few pictures with lots of empty space. Very disappointing.