Film Stills: Emotions Made in Hollywood

by Annemarie Hurlimann, Alois M. Miller

From the beginnings up until about 1960, more than 300 still photographers were employed in the studios of Hollywood. George Hurrell Clarence Sinclair Bull and Eugene Robert Richie are some of the famous among them. The majority of still photographers, however, has remained largely unknown because they were assigned the lowest rung in the hierarchic scale of the picture-producing studios. For a long while, film stills were considered byproducts or even waste products that could be disregarded in the process of producing films. Hardly anyone outside of the publicity sector dealt with them. 220 pages; black-and-white photos. No additional printings indicated. German / Deutsche and English. Exhibition catalogue of Hollywood studio photography from the silent film period through ca. 1960. Michel Cieutat, Jorg Huber, Annemarie Hurlimann, Gertrude Koch, Max Kozloff, Alois Martin Muller, Barbara Basting, Marco Meier, Laura Arici, Lilli Binzegger, Rolf Niederer, Ilma Rakusa, David Streiff, Barbara Sichtermann, more.

220 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1993

Reviews

[Greta · Rating 2 out of 5]

Exhibition catalog with contributions in German and English. Nice stills, though a few actors are incorrectly identified. Essays are in academic art jargon, not particularly well-versed in film history and occasionally condescending, as well as not well translated. Longer essays are followed by riffs on individual stills (which sometimes have nothing to do with the still).