Steve Schapiro: Taxi Driver

You talkin' to me? Previously unseen photographs from Scorsese s masterpiece Taxi Driver has long been regarded as a cinematic milestone, and Robert DeNiro s portrait of a trigger-happy psychopath with a mohawk is widely believed to be one of the greatest performances ever filmed. Time magazine includes the film in its list of100 Greatest Movies, saying: "The power of Scorsese s filmmaking grows ever more punishing with the passage of time."

Steve Schapiro whose photographs were featured in TASCHEN s Godfather Family Album was the special photographer on the set of Taxi Driver, capturing the film s most intense and violent moments from behind the scenes. This book more than a film still book but a pure photo book on its own features hundreds of unseen images selected from Schapiro s archives, painting a chilling portrait of a deranged gunman in the angry climate of the post-Vietnam era.

With a foreword by Martin Scorsese!

First published in TASCHEN s limited edition now available in this standard TASCHEN edition.
Text in English, French, and German