LEADER 00000cam a2200673 i 4500 001 799253063 003 OCoLC 005 20140331095321.0 008 120629s2013 ilua b 001 0 eng c 010 2012026790 015 GBB315025|2bnb 016 7 016279852|2Uk 019 855253598 020 9780226013268 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 022601326X (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 |z9780226013435 (e-book) 020 |z022601343X (e-book) 040 ICU/DLC|beng|erda|cCGU|dDLC|dPUL|dOCLCO|dYDXCP|dBTCTA |dERASA|dUKMGB|dBDX|dUBY|dTFW|dMOF|dIUL|dCDX|dCHVBK|dVP@ |dA7U|dVLR|dOCLCF|dCUD|dCUY 042 pcc 043 n-us--- 050 00 PN1995.9.S696|bS55 2013 082 00 791.430973|223 100 1 Shields, David S. 245 10 Still :|bAmerican silent motion picture photography / |cDavid S. Shields. 264 1 Chicago ;|aLondon :|bThe University of Chicago Press, |c2013. 300 xii, 401 pages :|billustrations ;|c26 cm 336 text|2rdacontent 337 unmediated|2rdamedia 338 volume|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-390) and index. 505 0 Inventing glamour, composing worlds. Photography and the birth of professional beauty ; Glamour comes to California ; Worlds distilled : motion picture production photography -- The visual artists. Manly faces : Jack Freulich, Bert Longworth, Ray Jones, and the Universal Studio aesthetic ; The dying photographer and the new woman ; Opium dreams : Ferdinand P. Earle and visual fantasy ; Royal photographer to the stars : M.I. Boris and visual artistry -- Artistry and regimen. The eyes of Lillian Gish ; The wide-open spaces ; Studio men. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating.|5CBPF. 520 While the American silent movie was one of the most significant popular art forms of the modern age, it is also one that is largely lost to us, as more than eighty percent of silent films have disappeared, the victims of age, disaster, and neglect. We now know about many of these cinematic masterpieces only from the collections of still portraits and production photographs that were originally created for publicity and reference. Capturing the beauty, horror, and moodiness of silent motion pictures, these images are remarkable pieces of art in their own right. In the first history of still camera work generated by the American silent motion picture industry, David S. Shields chronicles the evolution of silent film aesthetics, glamour, and publicity, and provides unparalleled insight into this influential body of popular imagery. Exploring the work of over sixty camera artists, "Still" recovers the stories of the photographers who descended on early Hollywood and the stars and starlets who sat for them between 1908 and 1928. Focusing on the most culturally influential types of photographs--the performer portrait and the scene still--Shields follows photographers such as Albert Witzel and W. F. Seely as they devised the poses that newspapers and magazines would bring to Americans, who mimicked the sultry stares and dangerous glances of silent stars. He uncovers scene shots of unprecedented splendor--visions that would ignite the popular imagination. And he details how still photographs changed the film industry, whose growing preoccupation with artistry in imagery caused directors and stars to hire celebrated stage photographers and transformed cameramen into bankable names. Reproducing over 150 of these gorgeous black-and-white photographs, "Still" brings to life an entire long-lost visual culture that a century later still has the power to enchant. 650 0 Stills (Motion pictures)|zUnited States. 650 0 Motion picture actors and actresses|zUnited States. 650 0 Photographers|zUnited States. 650 0 Cinematography|zUnited States. 650 7 Stummfilm.|2gnd 650 7 Photographie.|2gnd 650 7 Cinematography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00861484 650 7 Motion picture actors and actresses.|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01027096 650 7 Photographers.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01061605 650 7 Stills (Motion pictures)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01133438 651 7 USA.|2gnd 651 7 United States.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204155 956 20140331 |bpfmcq|cCC 956 20140919|btscmh|cMR 957 OCLC xref loaded 20160911 994 C0|bCUY