The Big Shot showcases over 100 rare photographs, featuring three decades of celebrity, entertainment and major events, captured by one of Britain’s longest-standing press photographers.

Greg Brennan: The Big Shot showcases the work of one of Britain's longest standing and most celebrated press photographers, offering an intimate look at three decades of celebrity, entertainment and major events. From Hollywood and music legends to sporting greats, fashion visionaries and members of the British royal family, Greg Brennan has spent a lifetime chasing every opportunity to provide the public with rare behind-the-scenes insights, capturing encounters with the likes of Jack Nicholson, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lady Gaga, Kate Moss and Queen Elizabeth II. Told in the photographer's own words, with an accompanying narrative by his son Dylan, this volume represents not only an outstanding photographic record of headline-making people and occasions, but also a deeply personal account of a photographer's pursuit of the perfect shot – sometimes decades in the making. Featuring over 100 photographs, Greg Brennan: The Big Shot is a stunning parade of famous faces and the story of Brennan's mission to reveal something of the individuals behind the most public of personas. AUTHOR: As one of Britain's longest standing press photographers, Greg Brennan has photographed some of the most important public figures and popular celebrities of the last century, capturing the world's rebels, history-writers and world-shakers at their most candid, skillfully encapsulating their personalities with shots timed to perfection. SELLING POINTS: . Featuring three decades of celebrity, entertainment and major events . Stunning collection from Greg Brennan, one of Britain's most celebrated press photographers . Includes encounters with the likes of Jack Nicholson, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lady Gaga, Kate Moss, and Queen Elizabeth II 69 colour, 76 b/w illustrations

Details

ISBN13: 9781788843539
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 224
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Publication Date:
Publisher: ACC Art Books
Publication City, Country: Woodbridge, United Kingdom
Dimensions (cm): 26(H)x17.8(L)x2.4(W)1060
Weight (gm): 1060

Author Biography

As one of Britain's longest standing press photographers, Greg Brennan has photographed some of the most important public figures and popular celebrities of the last century, capturing the world's rebels, history-writers and world-shakers at their most candid, skillfully encapsulating their personalities with shots timed to perfection.

Reviews

"""That photographer is Greg Brennan, and his new book The Big Shot, published by ACC Art Books, is one of the most quietly extraordinary documents of celebrity culture I have encountered in nearly three decades in this world. These are not the outcomes of ambush. They are the outcomes of a man who understood that the long game always beats the quick grab."" ""Brennan's new book, The Big Shot, published by ACC Art Books and narrated by his son Dylan, is one of those rare photography collections that operates as something closer to cultural portraiture than press documentation. The Queen of England requested a signed exhibition print for the Royal Photographic Collection."" ""Michael Jackson waved him into Harrods in the middle of the night. Lady Gaga tweeted one of his images to ten million followers with the caption ""I love you. Thank you."" These are not the outcomes of a man lurking in doorways. These are the outcomes of an artist who happens to work outside."" ""...Brennan's book arrives as a reminder that the most durable images of fame are always the ones made with the subject's full humanity intact.""" - Celebrity Intelligence
The Oxford Blue Newspaper featured The Big Shot . - The Oxford Blue Newspaper
CNN Style featured The Big Shot. - CNN Style
The Daily Mail US featured an extract from The Big Shot - The Daily Mail US
"One of Britain’s longest standing and most celebrated press photographers presents an intimate look at three decades of images covering celebrity, entertainment, and major events in a new book." - PetaPixel
The Guardian featured The Big Shot - The Guardian
"""Greg Brennan turned a hobby into an exhilarating profession, shunning the typical paparazzi approach to earn the trust of his subjects."" ""Brennan has included a selection of these photographs in his new book, The Big Shot, which chronicles three decades as one of Britain’s longest-standing press photographers. A small, spry man with an easy charm and gentle earnestness, Brennan has shot everyone from Elizabeth Taylor, Dennis Hopper, Clint Eastwood, Michael Jackson and Carrie Fisher to Bill Clinton, Cristiano Ronaldo and Elizabeth II. He has been described as a “gentleman’s photographer”, because, unlike the paparazzi, he works with celebrities, not against them.""" - The Telegraph
"""One of Britain’s longest standing press photographers, Greg Brennan has spent 35 years capturing Hollywood icons, pop legends and presidents. Now, his first book tells the stories behind them."" ""It’s a visual journey through his stellar career of capturing candids of actors, musicians, supermodels, politicians and sports stars."" ""When flipping through a preview copy of The Big Shot, which Brennan shares with me, it’s clear that he is a master at capturing celebs in a matter of seconds."" ""The Big Shot is a visual treat, featuring around 140 photographs that will appeal to anyone who loves images of famous people and enjoys the stories behind pictures.""" - Square Mile Magazine
"The American photographer, who carved out a niche for himself in the British press, has gone on to create iconic portraits such as that of Queen Elizabeth II, now part of the royal family's private collection, and that of Kate Moss descending a staircase. He has now compiled his thirty-year career into a book, 'The Big Shot'." - El Paris Spain
"Shunning the typical paparazzi approach to earn the trust of his subjects, celebrity photographer Greg Brennan has spent more than three decades taking eye-catchingly candid pictures of the most famous people in the world." - The Telegraph Magazine
"Still, his favorite photograph from that encounter isn't the one the world knows – he prefers an image captured a fraction of a second later, in which Moss is already standing and heading for the door. "It has more of a catwalk feel," he explains. He included it in the book, accepting that photographers don't control which of their images capture the collective imagination. "The Big Shot: Photographs by Greg Brennan" , published by ACC Art Books, is now available." - CNN Portugal
"""A new book from veteran press photographer Greg Brennan reminds us that the story people tell about a photo can matter as much as the photo itself"" ""Another lesson threaded through The Big Shot is less about a single frame and more about the accumulated grind behind the whole career...And it's why a book built on Brennan's own recollections, rather than just the pictures, is worth reading – for the process as much as the results."" ""The book pairs over 100 of those images with his own account, co-written with his son Dylan, of what was actually happening when the shutter clicked. The gap between those two things...turns out to be the real subject of the book."" ""Every photographer who's ever put work in front of the public knows the feeling...Greg Brennan's new book, The Big Shot, published by ACC Art Books, is built around that exact dynamic.""" - Digital Camera World