Hollywood Portraits

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With this extraordinarily beautiful book, photographer Mark Vieira welcomes you to his filing cabinet—and what a filing cabinet it is! A lover of both skillful camera work and the films of Hollywood's Golden Era, he has over the past 15 years assembled an unrivalled collection of movie stills. Each image has a glowing, radiant, almost translucent quality, due to the distinctive lighting style of Hollywood's great visual artists—the cinematographers and portrait photographers of the 'Glamour Years'—stars in their own right.
Here. Mr Vieira presents not only exquisite photographs, notes on the movies for which they were taken and anecdotes about the glamorous world of cinema, he also explains each photograph from the photographer's point of view, telling how the lighting was achieved and revealing how each of these masters of the camera dealt with the strengths and weaknesses particular to each of their famous models.
This volume includes the rich and luminescent work produced... Tovább

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With this extraordinarily beautiful book, photographer Mark Vieira welcomes you to his filing cabinet—and what a filing cabinet it is! A lover of both skillful camera work and the films of Hollywood's Golden Era, he has over the past 15 years assembled an unrivalled collection of movie stills. Each image has a glowing, radiant, almost translucent quality, due to the distinctive lighting style of Hollywood's great visual artists—the cinematographers and portrait photographers of the 'Glamour Years'—stars in their own right.
Here. Mr Vieira presents not only exquisite photographs, notes on the movies for which they were taken and anecdotes about the glamorous world of cinema, he also explains each photograph from the photographer's point of view, telling how the lighting was achieved and revealing how each of these masters of the camera dealt with the strengths and weaknesses particular to each of their famous models.
This volume includes the rich and luminescent work produced by the steady hands and flawless instinct of such great photographers as George Hurrell, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Otto Dyar, William Walling, David Abel and Lee Garmes, allowing the reader to study the varied styles of these artists side by side.
With this unique book, Mr Vieira shares both his collection and his love for these great artists with you. It is a must for any lover of film history.
Front cover: The acknowledged king of Hollywood in the 1930s, Clark Gable gazes through the famous dark eyes that made America melt, for the benefit of Clarence Sinclair Bull's lens in 1934. These publicity photos were just as important to the stars" images as the characters they portrayed.
Photo: Mark Vieira collection Vissza