Tom Cruise is among many recognizable faces and names from the past half-century to appear in a new book of celebrity-focused 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 her career at Vanity Fair in the 1980s and appeared in many other fashion magazines over the next five decades.
One of the most striking snaps includes 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 won the Oscar for the 1996 film.
Another revealing photo shows Cruise and his ex-wife, Nicole Kidman, 57, inside the Vanity Fair Oscar party in 2000.
Cuba Gooding Jr. and Tom Cruise, Annabel’s, London, 2015
The actor began the night nominated for an Academy Award for his supporting role in the psychological drama Magnolia. He lost to Kevin Spacey, who won for his work on American Beauty.
Kidman looked stunning in the same gold dress she had worn to the ceremonies, but Becker caught her taking a drag on a cigarette in the Vanity Fair tent, despite California’s ban on public smoking.
The actress says she has since kicked the habit.
The collection includes a candid black and white photograph of the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat taken during an event at the Brooklyn Academy of Art.
The 1985 photograph was taken three years before the death of the neo-expressionist painter from a heroin overdose, which marked a tragic end to his dizzying career.
Famed heiress and clothing designer Gloria Vanderbilt looks regal but relaxed as she sits for a portrait with the artist at her New York home.
Instead of staring into the camera, as might be expected in such a formal setting, the fashionista looks like a reflective red queen sitting in a red chair near her red and green fireplace.
A full-length portrait of the jean maker’s late mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, appears to look over her daughter’s shoulder.
Nicole Kidman, Vanity Fair Oscar Party, West Hollywood, 2000
Jean-Michel Basquiat at the inauguration of Pina Bausch 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 in the road as he took photographs of a dinner at Buckingham Palace in 2001 involving the then Prince Charles, 75, and his partner Camilla Parker-Bowles.
The royal appears to be chatting with a woman sitting to her right, while Parker-Bowles, whom the future king would marry in 2005, is sitting across the table, chatting with a fellow guest.
The book, edited by Mark Holborn, also includes photographs of 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, David Bowie and many more.
Jonathan Becker: Lost Time is available in bookstores and online.
