Often photographs are taken for a project, a book, a story. There are many others that are born out of pure shock, which require […]…
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“Why are people sleeping?” they asked me, and still do. I was interested to discover in my photographs a fact so natural, so daily, […]…
I happened to dream that I entered a square, and in that crowded square I discovered that there were the people, lots of people, […]…
Thanks to Leonardo Sciascia, I published my first book on Religious Holidays in Sicily at the age of 21. Since then, making books has […]…
The Kobal Collection ! The most sublime collection of photos from the great Hollywood studios of the last century. The legend is that whenever […]…
Over his lifetime, John’s portrait was taken by many photographers. He was a willing subject and enjoyed the process. Here are a few examples. […]…
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…
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…