This is an offer you can't refuse. It goes behind the scenes of Coppola's masterpiece. As special photographer on the sets and locations of Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy, Steve Schapiro had the remarkable experience of witnessing legendary actors giving some of their most memorable performances. Schapiro immortalized Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, James Caan, Robert Duvall, and Diane Keaton in photos that have since become iconic images, instantly recognizable and endlessly imitated. Gathered together in this book are Schapiro's finest photographs from all three Godfather films, lovingly reproduced from the original negatives. With contextual essays and interviews covering the trilogy in its entirety, this book contains over 400 color and black & white images. Schapiro's images take us behind the scenes of this epic and inimitable cinematic saga, revealing the director's working process, capturing the moods and personalities involved, and providing insight into the making of movie history.

The photographer: Steve Schapiro is a distinguished

 journalistic photographer whose pictures have graced

 the covers of "Vanity Fair, ""Time, "" Sports

 Illustrated, Life, Look, Paris Match," and "People,"

 and are found in many museum collections. He has

 published five books of his work, "American ""Edge,"

 "Schapiro's Heroes, The Godfather Family Album,

 ""Taxi Driver "and" Then and Now" In Hollywood he

 has worked on more than 200 motion pictures; his

 most famous film posters are for" Midnight Cowboy,

 Taxi Driver, Parenthood, "and "The Godfather Part

 III." The editor: Paul Duncan has edited 50 film

 books for TASCHEN, including the award-winning "The

 Ingmar Bergman Archives," and authored "Alfred

 Hitchcock" and "Stanley Kubrick" in the Film Series.