Publisher's Description
Isabella Rossellini: Looking At Me
On Pictures and Photographs
Introduction by Isabella Rossellini.
Self-reflection by celebrities tends to be fraught with unmentionable difficulties. Not, though, when the star in question is the ever intelligent, self-aware, articulate, and magnificent Isabella Rossellini. For years, a wall in the entrance
of Rossellini's apartment has been covered in pictures taken of her by different
photographers. Looking at the Me Wall, Rossellini writes that she never really
saw herself, instead she saw the photographer's work, their ideas, and our collaboration in capturing fantasies. Looking at Me gathers together Rossellini's private collection of portraits taken of herself by some of the world's leading
photographers, including Eve Arnold, Richard Avedon, Michel Comte, Patrick
Demarchelier, Fabrizio Ferri, Horst P. Horst, Brigitte Lacombe, Annie Leibovitz,
Peter Lindbergh, Robert Mapplethorpe, Steven Meisel, Irving Penn, Herb Ritts,
Paolo Roversi, Ellen von Unwerth, and Bruce Weber, as well as filmmakers
David Lynch and Wim Wenders. Rossellini invites us to join her as she looks at
her favorite portraits, privileging us with her witty, humorous, and self-ironical
comments. She traces her career, in photographs, from boxing reporter in
Muhammad Ali's training camp to highly successful model, from actress in
some of Hollywood's more controversial films to head of her own cosmetic
line, Manifesto. Mixed in with these public images are pictures of Rossellini in
private, with her children, her dog Macaroni, and her pig Spanky. Irresistibly
charming, intelligent yet whimsical, Looking At Me proves the perfect complement to Rossellini herself.