Sachgebiete

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156 S.; illustriert; 30 cm. Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag.

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Gutes Ex.; Umschl. gering berieben u.m. kl. Kratzspur. - Englisch. // John Kobal, the world's foremost film archivist, has amassed an unrivalled photographic treasure of Hollywood glamour portraits. As an author and noted film historian,he has also been a major force behind the tremendous revival of interest in the work of the great studio photographers like George Hurrell,Ted Allan,Lazlo Willingerand Clarence Sinclair Bull. This is his first colour book; the selection extends from the mid 1930s to the 1950s,the period in which colour photography became established in Hollywood,and contains seventy-four spectacular images of the major stars. Kobal brings the photographs to life with witty, incisive profiles of the many great screen personalities that made up Hollywood in its heyday. A gold-mine of movie lore, his descriptions are often as memorable as the portraits themselves: Bette Davis ('the most starry of actresses, the most actressy of stars'), Ann Sheridan ('that's not glamour you're talking about honey,that's a sweater'), Veronica Lake ('5' 2" pocket Venus'),James Cagney ('a great soul that no boundaries of time or taste could encompass'),and Linda Darnell ('a marvellous Edwardian chaise-longue'). In addition, Carlos Clarens provides a highly informative introductory essay on the advent of Technicolor and the revolution which the new colour processes engendered in the world of motion pictures. The photographs selected for inclusion revive a time when colour was not merely a vital box office addition to the Hollywood output but allowed it to glow in its own brilliant, if artificial,sunlight. With the introduction of faster and cheaper film stock,the making of colour images required less concentration and design,with the unforeseen result that colour photography has since then lost much of its rich, painterly lushness and succumbed to an almost universal blandness.This unique book provides a taste and a reminder of its past glory. ? (Verlagstext) ISBN 0906053277