Eva Sereny, Who Photographed Movie Stars at Get the job done, Dies at 86

In 1972, Eva Sereny was in Rome photographing rehearsals for “The Assassination of Trotsky,” starring Richard Burton as the Russian innovative, when his wife, Elizabeth Taylor, who was not in the movie, visited the established.

One particular of Ms. Sereny’s photographs captured a second in the celebrated stars’ famously turbulent relationship, which would quickly close: the two staring icily at each and every other, as if they have been re-enacting the tensions between their characters in the 1966 film “Who’s Worried of Virginia Woolf?”

“It was evident something was likely on,” she instructed The Guardian in 2018. “You could come to feel it — there was no great adore amongst them. I really don’t keep in mind them even noticing the shot, which was taken at a length from under. If it experienced been a close-up of their faces, it would have just been two individuals hunting not pretty nicely