Celebrity Portraits 1976 – 2016

Photojournalist, Roger Farrington, began shooting Opening Nights and candid celebrity portraits 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 visits 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 a more innocent era when black and white photographs 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 in 1985.