En résonance avec les inquiétudes eschatologiques de 2012 cette série photographique prend la forme d’une séquence de rêve au cours de laquelle un individu serait confronté à une suite apparemment…
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I photograph lights at night with my point and shoot camera while moving the camera fast enough to alter the light patterns into abstract shapes. I then double the original…
I shoot photos because it's an easy way to turn upside down what I see. I have got a photo in my hand. I saw what is in it, in…
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…
George Hurrell started work at MGM at the beginning of 1930 and almost immediately transformed Hollywood photography. Brought to MGM at the insistence of Norma Shearer, his task was to…
Clarence Sinclair Bull's long association as a photographer with the studio that would become Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer began when producer Samuel Goldwyn hired him in 1919. Managing to survive the commotion of…
Allan started his career very young as an actor and worked on a number of Cecil B De Mille movies in the early 1930s. When De Mille called on someone…
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…
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…
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…