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Glamour of the Gods | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert Dance, John Taylor
Publisher: Steidl & Partners
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 216028
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.6
Dimensions (in): 12.2 x 9.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 386521682X
Dewey Decimal Number: 778
EAN: 9783865216823
ASIN: 386521682X
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Product Description
A treat for fans and scholars alike, Glamour of the Gods is a massive survey of Hollywood photo-portraiture from the industry's golden age--1920-1960. All photographs are drawn from the extraordinary archive of the John Kobal Foundation in London. John Kobal was the last century's preeminent authority on Hollywood photography, as well as the first collector (and later author) to recognize photography's decisive role in creating and marketing Hollywood stars. Studio portraits and film stills contributed greatly to the glamour of the film industry in this period, especially in the heyday of the studio system (1920-1950). It was these images, as much the films they publicized, that transformed actors and actresses into international style icons. Kobal was among the first to recognize that fact, and he amassed images with such fervor that his archive, the basis of the foundation that bears his name, is now one of the world's top resources for Hollywood portraiture. Greta Garbo, Marlon Brando, Marlene Dietrich, Humphrey Bogart, Grace Kelly and Rita Hayworth are among the famous faces featured herein, styled in dramatic black-and-white by such photographers as Clarence Sinclair Bull, George Hurrell, Laszlo Willinger, Ted Allan and E.R. Richee. In many cases these are the career-defining images of their era. All of the photographs are from the archive's original vintage prints. In addition, film historian Robert Dance offers a lucid overview of the still/portrait photographer's place in the Hollywood studio system, and of John Kobal's place in Hollywood history. Critic and historian John Russell Taylor's introduction draws on his many years of friendship with Kobal.
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 The best of its kind November 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
From the arresting, surprising cover photo of Rock Hudson
through the many artistic, iconic portraits taken by the unsung 'stillsmen' who worked at all the major movie studios, Robert Dance has fashioned a wonderful paean to the mostly forgotten photgraphers, to the ever-glamorous stars and to John Kobal, who had
the good sense, passion and wherewithal to collect and save these
images from being lost forever.
 Wonderful book with beautiful portraits. September 22, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love this book. It's has some the greatest images of Hollywood's superstars of the first half of the last century. I give it 4 out of 5 stars for 2 reasons. (1) For fans of the Kobal collection, you will recognize many of the images from earlier books put out when John Kobal was alive. Personally I have seen, in other books of his (Kobal), about 60% of the portraits that appeared in this book. (2) The book has some beautiful color portraits that I wasn't expecting, but, again, a few were repeated in other books. Also, being the greedy person I am, there just wasn't enough of them (only about 6 in the whole book). There is however a wonderful color portrait of Lana Turner from 1938, that I had never seen, that's worth the price of the entire book!
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