Magnum Editions Poster: Elizabeth Taylor on the set of ‘Suddenly Last Summer’, 1959 Vintage

Magnum Editions Poster: Elizabeth Taylor on the set of ‘Suddenly Last Summer’, 1959 VintageBurt Glinns work on the set of Suddenly Last Summer offers a window into a production that was fraught with tension. The movie was Elizabeth Taylors first job after the death of her third husband, Mike Todd, in a plane crash. Just months after Todds death, Taylor had married Eddie Fisher and found herself at the center of a scandal, a position that would become familiar for her, though never comfortable, for the next 30 years. Glinn followed the cast

Traveling to New York

The Pleasure Principle

Comprising hundreds of photographs and insightful accompanying texts

This special edition includes a signed and numbered archival pigment print

I believe it to be a very classy resort

The America I found on the way was not quite the same as the one that my father had imagined

while the visual idiom inclines towards the cinematographic

human comedy

and captured the defining moments of the fight that would make Muhammad Ali one of the most recognised people of the planet

captures the photographer’s love of color that developed later in his career

using vivid and often unnatural colors to convey emotional power rather than realistic appearance

marrying and divorcing twice along the way