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Jack Robinson Showcases the Brilliant Rise of this Photographer to the Stars

Jack Robinson: On Show> Palazzo Editions ISBN:  9780956494221 Price: $39.95 (Cloth)

Filled with the faces and fashions of one of the twentieth century’s defining periods, Jack Robinson’s extraordinary photography collection is a veritable who’s who of the 1960s and ‘70s. As the foremost fashion and celebrity photographer for Vogue at the time, Robinson had the unique ability to make his subjects feel at ease in front of the lens and captured some of the most iconic individuals of the era. 

TIME selected 13 pivotal images from Jack Robinson: On Show, informing readers of "a new book from Trafalgar Square Publishing [Palazzo Editions] showcases 150 photographs, originally published in Vogue magazine, of cultural icons such as Joni Mitchell, Andy Warhol and Jack Nicholson. Between the years of 1958 and 1972, Robinson shot under the tutelage of then Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland, capturing most of these memorable images." A brief description of each moment Jack Robinson captured accompanies each image in the piece.

Driven spotlights a few of the choicest images from Jack Robinson, saying of the photgrapher, "he’s not nearly as well-known these days as contemporaries like Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, but a brilliant new book of his portraits should put that to rights." According to Memphis's The Commercial Appeal, Robinson left New York abruptly to live out his days in Memphis, creating works of stained glass art. After his death in the late '90s, former employer Dan Oppenheimer found himself in possession of Jack Robinson's photographic opus and did what he knew he had to. "Bringing out the book of Robinson's pictures fulfills what Oppenheimer considered an obligation. 'I just think it's important work; he left it to me to do something with it,' Oppenheimer said." (The Commercial Appeal).

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