
Film stills are a blind spot in the history of twentieth-century photography. Largely collected and appreciated simply for their documentary value, only recently have private and public collectors started to discover their seductive and original artistic qualities. In the 1920s and 1930s, during Hollywood's golden age, film-still photography reached an unmatched level of technical sophistication a...
Hardcover: 108 pages
Publisher: Steidl/Edition 7L (January 15, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3865211534
ISBN-13: 978-3865211538
Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 0.8 x 12 inches
Amazon Rank: 4085221
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This is a nice, but modest in number collection of some intriguing images. Reproduction quality is excellent and the images themselves are wonderful. The author states that this is part of a larger collection of these rare images, but out of the 11...
and developed an aesthetic style of its own. This book assembles a selection of vintage film stills from the Hollywood of that glamorous era--masterpieces from a large collection of film photography. Reproducing them in their original format and in high-quality tritone printing, the book conveys the unique creative and narrative qualities of these pictures from a forgotten chapter of black-and-white photography.