Paper Dreams: The Lost Art of Hollywood Still Photography

by David Campany

Film stills are a blind spot in the history of twentieth-century photography. Largely collected and appreciated simply for their documentary value, only recently have private and public collectors started to discover their seductive and original artistic qualities. In the 1920s and 1930s, during Hollywood's golden age, film-still photography reached an unmatched level of technical sophistication and mastery and developed an aesthetic style of its...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3865211534
• ISBN13: 9783865211538
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Steidl
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 12.0" x 11.5"