Cool in the Shade: One Man’s Photographs with the Stars

Since the 1980s, Shade Rupe has also documented his various meetings with actors, directors and musicians

Shade Rupe, Jodie Foster, film, famous faces, photographs

Jodie Foster with Shade Rupe.

Shade Rupe is a writer, filmmaker and actor. He has written for various film and culture magazines. A collection of his interviews, with the likes of Udo Kier, Divine, Alejandro Jodorowsky and Tura Satana, was published in the volume Dark Stars Rising: Conversations from the Outer Realm. He has also edited two volumes of dark fictions and art Funeral Party I & II subtitled “A Celebratory Excursion into Beautiful Extremes of Life, Lust & Death.”

As a background actor Rupe has made appearances in films like The Irishman, John Wick, and The Commuter. Rupe also hosted and produced film festivals, screenings and movie events including Ken Russell‘s tour of America in 2010.

Since the 1980s, Rupe has also documented his various meetings with actors, directors and musicians from David Lynch to Glenda Jackson via Charlotte Rampling and Robert Plant. This is the kind of personal memorabilia which could make for a coffee table book accompanied by Rupe’s tales of his adventures in filmland

While we wait for that far-off possibility, here is a selection of Shade Rupe with the great and the good.

 

Shade Rupe, David Lynch, famous faces, film, photographs

David Lynch.

 

Shade Rupe, Anna Taylor-Joy, film, famous faces, photographs

Anna Taylor-Joy.

 

Shade Rupe, Ken Russell, Vanessa Redgrave, film, famous faces, photographs

Ken Russell and Vanessa Redgrave.

 

Susan Sarandon, Shade Rupe, film, face famous, photographs

Susan Sarandon.

 

Shade Rupe, Robert Plant, music, famous faces, photographs

Robert Plant.

 

Tilda Swinton, Shade Rupe, film, famous faces, photographs

Tilda Swinton.

 

Terry Gilliam, Shade Rupe, Monty Python, film, famous faces, photographs

Terry Gilliam.

 

Alfre Woodard, Shade Rupe, film, famous faces, photographs

Alfre Woodard.

 

Shade Rupe, Martin Scorsese, film, directors, famous faces, photographs

Martin Scorsese holding a copy of Shade Rupe’s book ‘Dark Stars Rising : Conversations from the Outer Realm’.

 

Shade Rupe, Sigourney Weaver, film, famous faces, photographs

Sigourney Weaver.

 

Steve Buscemi, Shade Rupe, film, famous faces, photographs

Steve Buscemi.

 

Charlotte Rampling, Shade Rupe, film, famous faces, photographs

Charlotte Rampling.

 

Shade Rupe, Udo Kier, film, famous faces, photographs

Udo Kier.

 

Karen Allen, Shade Rupe, film, famous faces, photographs

Karen Allen.

 

James Earl Jones, Shade Rupe, famous faces, film, photographs

James Earl Jones.

 

Isabelle Huppert, Shade Rupe, film, famous faces, photographs

Isabelle Huppert.

 

Shade Rupe, John Lydon, music, famous faces, photographs

John Lydon.

 

Glenda Jackson, Shade Rupe, film, politics, famous faces, photographs

Glenda Jackson.

 

Jim Jarmusch, Shade Rupe, film, directors, famous faces, photographs

Jim Jarmusch.

 

Shade Rupe, Liv Ullmann, film, famous faces, photographs

Liv Ullmann.

 

Bill Murray, Shade Rupe, film, famous faces, photographs

Bill Murray.

 

Marilyn Chambers, Shade Rupe, film, famous faces, photographs

Marilyn Chambers.

 

Mick Rock, Shade Rupe, photography, famous faces

Mick Rock.

 

Shade Rupe, Joan Rivers, television, famous faces, photographs

Joan Rivers.

 

Shade Rupe, George A Romero, film, horror, famous faces, photographs

George A. Romero.

 

Shade Rupe, Georgina Hale, film, actors, photographs

Georgina Hale.

 

Shade Rupe, Stephen King, film, books, writers

Stephen King.

 

Shade Rupe, Al Pacino, actors, writers, film

Al Pacino.

All images from Shade Rupe’s personal archive, used with kind permission.

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