Tom Cruise is one of several recognizable faces and names from the past half-century included in a new book on celebrity-oriented photography.
In Jonathan Becker: Lost Time – edited by Mark Holborn and published by Phaidon – Becker shares candid moments and planned portraits of stars, royals and artists.
Becker began his career at Vanity Fair in the 1980s and was featured in many other fashion magazines over the next five decades.
One of the standout images is Cruise, 62, sharing a moment with his Jerry Maguire co-star Cuba Gooding Jr., 56, as they reconnect in London in 2015, years after Gooding’s Oscar win for the film from 1996.
Another insightful photo shows Cruise and his ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, 57, at the Vanity Fair Oscars party in 2000.
Cuba Gooding Jr. and Tom Cruise, Annabel’s, London, 2015
The actor started the evening as an Academy Award nominee for his supporting role in the psychological drama Magnolia. He lost to Kevin Spacey, who won for his work on American Beauty.
Kidman looked ravishing in the same gold dress she wore to the ceremonies, but Becker caught her taking a drag on a cigarette in the Vanity Fair tent, despite California’s ban on smoking in public.
The actress says she has since kicked the habit.
The collection includes a candid black-and-white photograph by the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, taken during an event at the Brooklyn Academy of Art.
The 1985 photo was taken three years before the neo-expressionist painter’s death from a heroin overdose, which tragically ended his flourishing career.
Famed heiress and clothing designer Gloria Vanderbilt looks regal but relaxed as she sits for a portrait with the artist in her New York home.
Instead of staring into the camera, as you might expect in such a formal setting, the fashionista looks like a reflective red queen sitting in a red chair by her red-and-green fireplace.
A portrait of the jeans maker’s late mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, appears to be looking over her daughter’s shoulder.
Nicole Kidman, Vanity Fair Oscar Party, West Hollywood, 2000
Jean-Michel Basquiat at the Pina Bausch opening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, October 1985
Gloria Vanderbilt at home, Beekman Place, New York, 2011
Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker-Bowles, Buckingham Palace, London, 2001
Jonathan Becker: Lost Time is available in bookstores and online
Becker was a fly on the road when he snapped photos of a dinner at Buckingham Palace in 2001 with then-Prince Charles, 75, and his partner Camilla Parker-Bowles.
The royal family appears engaged in a cover-up with a woman sitting to his right, while Parker-Bowles, whom the future king would marry in 2005, sits on the other side of the table having her own conversation with another guest.
The book, edited by Mark Holborn, also includes photographs by Andy Warhol, Calvin Klein, Léa Seydoux, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Vanderbilt, Peter Beard, Fran Lebowitz, Arthur Miller, Gwyneth Paltrow, Cindy Sherman, André Leon Talley, Gore Vidal, Diana Vreeland, and David Bowie, and many more.
Jonathan Becker: Lost Time is available in bookstores and online.