Few
male stars in any medium carried a visual punch like Frank Sinatra.
Photographs capture not only his ineffable sense of style, but also his
aura of vulnerability, intensity, sexuality, and charm. Sinatra: The Photographs
focuses on the decades after the war, when he towered over the American
entertainment landscape. These were the years of the Rat Pack and Las
Vegas, socializing with Jack Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, and making
music with Nelson Riddle, Count Basie, and Quincy Jones. Featured is the
best work by a group of photographers who helped shape the public image
of Sinatra: Ted Allan, Bob Willoughby, Ed Thrasher, Sid Avery, and
Bernie Abramson. Photographs by these men form the nucleus of the images
gathered in this book, which are accompanied by illuminating commentary
on Sinatra by the people who knew him best.