Taxi Driver — New York, 1975

With photographs by Steve Schapiro it captures the making of one of the darkest icons of American cinema through the eyes of a photographer who was embedded in its genesis. Shot on location in 1975 during the production of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, Schapiro’s images move between candid documentary and constructed myth — De Niro rehearsing in the mirror, Jodie Foster between takes, the neon grime of a pre-gentrified New York.

This is more than a film book — it’s a time capsule of American paranoia. Schapiro frames not just the actors but the machinery around them: grips, lights, tension. The city becomes a character, and Travis Bickle a symptom. With a foreword by Scorsese and over 400 images, many never before published, the volume shows how an unstable film became a cultural monument. Designed in large format and printed multilingually, Taxi Driver is both a portrait of a film and a study in urban alienation — seen from the back seat of a yellow cab.

Technical Sheet

Title: Taxi Driver
Artist / Author: Steve Schapiro
Foreword: Martin Scorsese
Date: 2013
Technique / Printing Method: Colour and black-and-white offset printing
Medium / Materials: Hardcover
Dimensions: 25.8 x 38.2 cm
Pages: 399
Publisher / Editor: Taschen
ISBN: 978-3-8365-4198-5
Language: Multilingual (English, French, German)
Condition: New