LEFT: “In 1981, I was covering the birthday party of 100 year-young pianist Eubie Blake at Gallagher’s restaurant in Midtown. I love this photo since it shows a relaxed, beautiful Jackie O in a very human gesture.”  RIGHT: “I was at a private dinner party one night in 1982. Nureyev arrived and I was delighted to capture him in a private moment, looking absolutely handsome.”

Capturing The Glamour

Photographer Rose Hartman has chronicled the glamorous, the celebrated and the sexy since the Seventies. Here she steps back to share her thoughts on her iconic photos.

Chronicling a world of beauty and style, photographer Rose Hartman has captured fashion’s trendsetters for three decades, helping to define what we remember most about glamour and those who create it. Her lens has given order to the chaos of openings, runways shows, and couture’s triumphs and tragedies, by letting the viewer see the substance behind the form. With her photographs appearing worldwide in books and publications such as Allure, Harper’s Bazaar, New York, Vogue, W, The New York Times, Panorama, Stern and Vanity Fair, she has distinguished herself as a photographer whose eye is so keen, even her candid work has the finish and insight of portraiture.

ABOVE: “I was amazed to see a golden-haired Lady Godiva ride into Studio 54 on a white horse. Moments later, a stunning Bianca Jagger mounted the same horse, held flowers and a balloon in her hands. What a surprise birthday celebration that Mick Jagger made for his wife in 1977.”

Many iconic images associated with a style, an event, and an era, belong to Hartman and she has photographed everyone celebrated, innovative, and memorable in the worlds of fashion, society, music and art.

Her first book, BIRDS OF PARADISE, An Intimate View of the New York Fashion World (Delacorte Press), remains recognized not only as a collection of photographs, but also as a history of the era it records.

For more on Hartman and her fabulous photographs, visit: http://www.rosehartman.com Or contact her: rhartmanphotos@mac.com.

This month she selected a handful of classic photos that captured a time and a moment in New York City’s glamorous nightlife. She reveals her thoughts at the moment as she snapped the shot.

LEFT: “Surrounded by hundreds of guests dancing wildly, drinking champagne, taking Ectasy, I was really attracted to the interaction between Andy Warhol & Lou Reed at just another memorable evening at Studio 54 in 1978.” RIGHT: "I photographed Linda Evangelista at a fab party for Valentino at the 67th st. Armory in 1992. I wanted to capture her beauty, the way she held that balloon —-a time of joy, & a little innocence."