Steidlville

A few years ago, a sensational discovery was made when an extensive photo archive was found in Charles Chaplin’s estate. It consists of thousands of glass-negatives, negatives and photoprints of Chaplin’s life. Chaplin documented his life with passionate enthusiasm: private photographs taken by his friends, his family and his children have been collected as well as »official« photographs made during shootings and work in the studios.
These photographs have never been published before and from this tremendous find photographer Michel Comte has put together a sensitive album which shows a Charlie Chaplin hitherto unknown. It covers his trips around the world, the »snapshots« with artist colleagues, persons in public life, with relatives, children and grandchildren. The large-format volume begins in 1909, and ends with a color photograph taken immediately prior to Chaplin’s death. This book presents an artist who was »acting« throughout his life, and who was also always in the limelight in his private life.