Douglas Kirkland: Romance

Françoise Kirkland (editor), Sara Menahem (editor), Douglas Kirkland (photographer)

Hardback (15 Sep 2025)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Celebrated Australian director Baz Luhrmann said:
"Douglas's pictures have this warmth and humanity; they have Romance." Douglas Kirkland, a pivotal figure in 20thcentury photography, dedicated much of his career to capturing both celebrities and everyday people, crafting a body of work that is at once intimate and iconic. Among his most unforgettable images are those of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, and Coco Chanel, along with countless others. Romance features iconic couples such as Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; familiar faces including Paul Newman, Judy Garland, Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman and Princess Diana; silver screen romances from Out of Africa, Moulin Rouge or Titanic; and never-before-seen images, this book showcases Kirkland's magnificent appetite for love, joy and the beauty of human connection. Kirkland's photographs celebrate love in all its forms-playful, tender and enduring-reflecting passion, affection and companionship across generations.

About the Publisher

Damiani

Damiani was founded in May 2004 as the new publishing branch of the printing company, Grafiche Damiani, in Bologna. Damiani was set up in the 1950s to specialize in art and photography lithographic printing. Today, Damiani continues this long-held tradition, aiming at producing volumes characterized by high handmade quality and innovative technology. What distinguishes Damiani is the attention devoted to exploring and understanding the forms of the contemporary imagination. Besides the projects concerning the unpublished activity by leading figures from the art and photography world, Damiani also constitutes an observatory of the new generations of international artists and of social phenomena, which meet with the solid architecture of accurately edited books, creating real art objects.