Over the course of five decades; Jonathan Becker has produced a body of evocative photographic work that documents lives of the twentieth-century beau monde. A protégé of legendary Parisian photographer Brassaï and a longtime contributor to Vanity Fair; Becker’s work provides a link between fine-art photography and the notion of the photographer as social observer.Bringing together commissioned and personal work; this stunning collection presents more than 200 images from across Becker’s career; charting his journeys in New York; Paris; London; and Buenos Aires from the 1970s to the 2010s. Portraits of artists Ed Ruscha and Cindy Sherman; writers Arthur Miller and Eudora Welty; musicians David Bowie and Mick Jagger; and others reveal Becker’s exceptional eye and astute sociological observations.