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Seen Behind the Scene: Forty Years of Photographing on Set, by Mary Ellen Mark, hardcover, 264 pages, 11.6 x 8.7 x 1.3 inches, 3.8 pounds, Phaidon Press, list price: $59.95
Oh, the scenes Mary Ellen Mark has seen. Imagine having been the set photographer for this trio of raucous classics: Apocalypse Now, Carnal Knowledge, Fellini Satyricon.
For every thrilling and provocative picture here — of Belushi, Coppola, Depp, Streep, Hoffman, Brando and on and on — Mark probably has a hundred more in her files. As her images make clear, movie sets are often peculiar (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) and surreal (Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes). Accompanying texts by the likes of Mike Nichols, Helen Mirren and screenwriter Robert Towne reinforce Mark's visual thesis: Sometimes the best scenes are the ones not written.
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