De Niro

Most moviegoers associate actor Robert De Niro with adjectives like intense, violent, streetwise, and brooding. It is an image that De Niro has carefully nurtured over the last fifty years of his career. He used gesture, voice, and, most importantly, his mesmerizing eyes to convey to the audience the disturbing emotions with which he imbued his characters, from his earliest films like "Mean Streets" through classic portraits of violent, disaffected men like Travis Bickle in "Taxi Driver" and Jake La Motta in "Raging Bull" to the maniacal father in "Meet the Parents".

For in De Niros world, art and reality are often indistinguishable. "Movie Icons" is a series of photo books that feature the most famous personalities in the history of cinema. These 192-page books are visual biographies of the stars.