My Elizabeth

by Firooz Zahedi, Liz Smith (Foreword by), Bob Colacello (Preface by)

Overview

A splendid personal tribute in words and photographs--many never before seen--by Firooz Zahedi, Vanity Fair contributing photographer and close friend of Elizabeth's, this is a beautiful photographic memoir of a life-changing friendship and a uniquely intimate portrait of one of the big screen's most famous talents.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780996293044
Publisher:	Glitterati, Inc.
Publication date:	03/23/2016
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	13.20(w) x 12.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Firooz Zahedi was born in Tehran, Iran and attended secondary school in England before moving to the United States in 1969 to study at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He studied at the Corcoran School of Art. After working as a photographer for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, he moved to Los Angeles in 1978 with Elizabeth Taylor, as her personal photographer on the film, “A Little Night Music.” He later became a contract photographer for Vanity Fair. His editorial work has also appeared in Vogue, GQ, Town & Country, Architectural Digest and Entertainment Weekly. His portraits, fine art photographs, and collages have been shown in prominent galleries in New York, Los Angeles, Basel, London and Dubai as well as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Norton Museum in West

Table of Contents

Contents: A Letter from ElizabethPreface: Unmoderated Passion by Liz Smith Foreword: Illuminating Elizabeth by Bob Colacello Introduction: Always, Always by Firooz ZahediThe Embassy IranNew York and Andy Warhol ViennaWashington to HollywoodBel Air Vanity FairAmsterdam Cannes Venice The White House Husband Number Nine The Last Sitting The Museum ShowAcknowledgmentsA Brief Chronology Index

Editorial Reviews

By 40, Taylor was an icon. Still enchanting men, she was the first actress to shatter Hollywood’s notoriously thick glass ceiling: for Cleopatra—a film that, ironically, almost bankrupted 20th Century Fox—she was to be paid what was then the astronomical sum of $1 million dollars. Firooz Zahedi’s spectacular new book, My Elizabeth, has changed all that. Filled with dazzling images and a wealth of intimate detail, this revealing photographic memoir should be on every coffee table.

Vanity Fair, February 16th, 2016 - Charles Shyer

In the photographic memoir My Elizabeth, out March 23, photographer Firooz Zahedi presents a rare glimpse into this lesser-known time of Taylor's life, from age 44 to her death. Over a 35-year friendship with Taylor, Zahedi captured her most private moments on many travels, in her Bel-Air home, and among her famous inner circle: with the Rothschilds, the fashion designer Halston, Michelangelo Antonioni, and her great love Richard Burton.

New York Magazine, The Cut, February 21st, 2016 - Catie L'Heureux

Photographer Firooz Zahedi’s tantalizing new book, My Elizabeth (Glitterati Inc., $75), manages to bring the great lady to life in a way that will make even her most die-hard fans revel in delight and discovery.

Architectural Digest, February 1st, 2016 - Mayer Rus

Coming any second from Glitterati Incorporated is photographer Firooz Zahedi's lavish and loving "My Elizabeth," packed with gorgeous, mostly never-seen photos of La Liz, along with a series of essays by Firooz about his long friendship with Taylor. (They met in 1976, while Taylor dallied with Firooz's uncle, Ardeshir Zahedi, the ambassador to Iran.) Firooz's tales and pictures reveal a great deal about the personal, intimate, side of Taylor. That bawdy, earthy, generous woman her friends and family adored.

NY Social Diary, February 22nd, 2016 - Liz Smith

Friend and acclaimed photographer Zahedi offers a private peek into Taylor's life from 44 into her 70s. Includes the Washington, D.C., years, jaunts in Montauk, New York with Halston and Andy Warhol and intimate photos of her children and stepchildren. There's Taylor making fried chicken, on a boat in Venice, on a trip to Iran.

Daily Mail