Kathryn Reed Altman met and married Robert Altman in 1959 and was an active participant in Altman’s professional life. She lives in New York City and Los Angeles. Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan is a film writer, curator, and programmer who has published numerous books on American cinema, including monographs on Clint Eastwood and William Friedkin. She lives in New York City. Martin Scorsese is one of America’s most prominent filmmakers. He has directed classics such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and The Departed. He lives in New York City.

For decades, Robert Altman fascinated audiences with pioneering films—among them M*A*S*H, Nashville, and Gosford Park—that combined technical innovation with subversive, satirical humor and impassioned political engage­ment. Altman, a visual survey of this quintessentially American artist, brims with photographs and ephemera from Altman’s archive. His widow, Kathryn, contributes recollections of family life, while film critic Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan places Altman in the context of the public intellectual. Featured are contributions from Altman’s collaborators and contemporaries, including Frank Barhydt, E. L. Doctorow, Roger Ebert, Jules Feiffer, Julian Fellowes, James Franco, Tess Gallagher, Pauline Kael, Garrison Keillor, Michael Murphy, Lily Tomlin, Alan Rudolph, Michael Tolkin, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.