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| Paper Dreams: The Lost Art Of Hollywood Still Photography | 
 enlarge | Author: David Campany
Creator: Christoph Schifferli
Publisher: Steidl/Edition 7L
Category: Book
List Price: $60.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 422714
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 108
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 12 x 11.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 3865211534
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783865211538
ASIN: 3865211534
Publication Date: January 15, 2006
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Product Description
Film stills are a blind spot in the history of 20th-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 30s, during Hollywood's golden age, film-still photography reached an unmatched level of technical sophistication and mastery 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. edited by Christoph Schifferli. Introduction by David Campany. Paperback, 11.5 x 10 in./112 pgs / 50 tritones.
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 A Sourcebook for Contemporary Photography Trends August 23, 2007
This is a facinating book if you reflect on current trends (past 15 years or so) in fine art photography. For me, the essay in the beginning puts the book's importance in this context -a point previous reviewers overlooked.
The still image taken (disrupted) from a larger film narrative becomes an ambiguous image on its own, suggesting other narrative interpretations and possibilities. Many current photographers - Jeff Wall, Creydson, Lorca-Di Corcia, the list goes on - defined current trends in photography by doing just that. The Hollywood still photographers had no idea the possibilities of their documents. A few of these images, save for the black and white print, look shockingly current.
 Another Point Of View June 28, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The other review is certainly valid. I add this only because it kept me from purchasing this book for a period of time. I finally went ahead and ordered it anyway. I'm glad that I did. It is a worthwhile addition to my collection of photography books.
 Lovely images, but way too few May 21, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
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 110 pages, there are only 48 full page plates, with only a short identification line on the facing page. The format could have easily doubled the images. Consequently, I feel the book is overpriced for what you get. Worth it at half the price. Save your money for better assembled collections like Alfred Chaney Johnson's, Clarence Sinclair Bull's, George Hurrell, Ruth Harriet Louise, or any of the Kobal compilations.
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