Kobal also tracked down Laszlo Willinger, Ted Allan's successor, who was living a quiet retirement in Los Angeles. Hungarian-born Willinger came to MGM in 1937 as part of the studio's…
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Eugene Robert Richee headed Paramount's portrait studio from its inception and he worked with a talented coterie of associates including William Walling and Don English. Richee remains the least examined…
Only Ernest Bachrach at Radio Keith Orpheum had a career at one studio that rivalled Clarence Bull's tenure at MGM. He joined RKO at its inception in 1929 and stayed…
The latest book to be drawn from the archive of the John Kobal Foundation, Hollywood Unseen is a showcase for, and tribute to, the incredible inventiveness and ingenuity of the…
Hollywood Icons is the latest publication from the archive of the John Kobal Foundation and accompanies the exhibition, Hollywood Icons, being toured by Terra Esplendida, which opened on July 15th…
John Kobal, who died twenty-one years ago this month, was a pre-eminent film historian and collector of Hollywood film photography. The author of over thirty books on film and film…
Simon Crocker was Managing Director and, subsequently Chairman of The Kobal Collection, until he sold his shareholding in 1999. He has been Chairman of the John Kobal Foundation since 1991.…
This year beginning inaugurated a promising year for The Eye of Photography! In January in particular, the newspaper broke its audience record by quintupling […]…
The poetic reality of Giacomelli by Enzo Carli Mario Giacomelli, unanimously considered by critics and the public as one of the greatest photographers of […]…