Pictures I Had to Take

Introduction by Duane Michals. Art Direction by Sam Shahid. Pictures I Had To Take, the first monograph by acclaimed actor Joel Grey, is a highly personal visual memoir of Grey's experiences while living and raveling in Europe, Asia, South and Central America, and the United States over the last twenty-five years. Separate and apart from his theater and film work, Grey exhibits for us images he was compelled to remember and record - the pictures he "had to take." Whether focusing his camera on a serene golden Buddha or on a majestic vista of misty Incan ruins, we can sense Grey's delightful sense of wonder and joy in the detail and the magnificent on each page, guiding us through a quarter-century of intensely felt observations.