Roger Farrington’s Celebrity Photographs 1976-2016
Photojournalist, Roger Farrington, first began shooting Opening Nights and celebrity candids in Boston’s Theatre District in 1975, and continued documenting Boston’s cultural nightlife until the pandemic shutdown. Recognizing Farrington’s talents in the early ‘80’s, publishers provided byline opportunities in W, GQ, Boston magazine, Back Bay Ledger, Improper Bostonian, Boston Common, The Boston Globe, Boston Herald, and Town & Country. For over forty years, Farrington’s photographs and write-ups of Boston’s top cultural events, openings and celebrity photo opportunities gained a growing popular audience and readership.

Farrington’s candid celebrity portraits, hark back to pre-internet times, years before the “instant celebrity” of Social Media, before digital photography and even auto-focus – to more innocent times when black and white still ruled Print Media. It was also a time when celebrities were Celebrities and Andy Warhol’s famous dictum, “In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes,” had yet to be realized. And yes, Farrington captured a cool shot of Warhol on Newbury Street in1985.

Besides Warhol, other notables photographed by Farrington include; Alec Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, H.R.H. Prince Charles, Cher, Kevin Costner, Matt Damon, Sammy Davis, Jr , Danny DeVito, Michael Douglas, Olympia Dukakis, Harvey Fierstein, Bob Fosse, Jodi Foster, David Hockney, Dennis Hopper, Elizabeth Hurley, Jesse Jackson, Coretta Scott King,, Olivia Newton John, Angela Lansbury, Cyndi Lauper, Jay Leno, John Lennon, Barry Manilow, Reba McEntire, Liza Minelli, Rudolf Nureyev, Yoko Ono, Pavarotti, Richard Pryor, Lou Reed, Little Richard, Diana Rigg, Garry Shandling, Frank Sinatra, Gloria Steinem, Donald Trump, Kathleen Turner, Christopher Walken, Barbara Walters, Dionne Warwick, Raquel Welch, Vanna White, John Williams, and Liv Ullmann (partial list)