photos by Jonathan Becker

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Hunter S. Thompson with Anita Bejmuk at home, Woody Creek, Colorado, July 2002.



Julian Schnabel in his studio, Montauk, New York, August 2001.



Chevy Chase, Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, and Lorne Michaels in the kitchen at Elaine’s, New York City, January 1976



Madonna, Martha Graham, and Calvin Klein after Graham’s final onstage bow, City Center, New York City, October 1990.



Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, Morton’s, West Hollywood, March 2000.



Matt Damon and Ben Affleck



Paz de la Huerta



Gwyneth Paltrow with her Oscar at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, Morton’s, West Hollywood, March 1999.



Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Bernard Malamud at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, May 1983.



Puccio Pucci in the Palazzo Pucci on the Via dei Pucci, Florence, Italy, summer 2000.



Dustin Hoffman



George Plimpton



Sergio Cappelli and Fiamma De Sanctis, Capri, Italy, September 2000.



Zac Posen



Valentino



Jacquetta Wheeler



Robert Mapplethorpe



Grace Jones and Jean-Paul Goude



Elia Kazan



Elaine at Elaine’s, May 2002.



Mick Jagger and Charles Finch at the Vanity Fair Oscar party, Sunset Tower Hotel, West Hollywood, February 2009.



Yue Minjun in his studio, Beijing, May 2007.



William Styron



H.R.H. the Prince of Wales at home at Highgrove, Gloucestershire, England, June 2010.



Diana Vreeland



Villa Cetinale, Tuscany, Italy, May 2012.