Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, photographed by Bruce Weber in Glen Cove, New York, 1997.

Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix during a cast shoot for *My Own Private Idaho,* in Los Angeles, 1991.

Serena and Venus Williams in New York, 2000.

The model Jeff Aquilon in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, 1982.

The model Quintin Van Konkelenberg in Paris, 2022.

The jazz musician Blossom Dearie in New York, 2002.

The Olympic diver Greg Louganis at the National Sports Festival in Colorado Springs, 1983.

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From Whitney Houston to Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Louise Bourgeois to Kate Moss, a new coffee-table book collects a lifetime of portraits by the photographer Bruce Weber

“When I open this book, I want it to feel like a party with the people I truly care about,” Bruce Weber tells me. “Not because some of them are famous but because a lot of them were my teachers.”

In Bruce Weber: My Education, published by Taschen, the illustrious photographer has compiled more than 500 images spanning decades and continents. A few standouts: Jeff Aquilon perched on a rock in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, in 1982, looking like a Greek deity; Whitney Houston in a bathrobe in Los Angeles in 1985; Kate Moss in Miami wearing a cap embroidered with her name, eyes smoldering into the lens, in 2003. The book is also interspersed with Charles Bukowski poems as well as texts by Rupert Brooke and John Steinbeck, artists who shaped Weber’s life and work.