This book celebrates today's movie stars in a compilation of contemporary glamour photography that, while paying homage to Hollywood glamour photography of the 1930s and 1940s, creates what author Ricky Spears calls 'New Hollywood Glamour'. More than 50 of America's leading photographers record the sexy, the funny and the downright gorgeous, including, among more than 100 other personalities, Alec Baldwin, Jodie Foster, Winona Ryder, Bob Hoskins, Sigourney Weaver and Mel Gibson. The photographers, many start themselves, include Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Ellen Mark, Bert Stern, Sylvia Plachy and George Hurrel. Spear's research through thousands of pictures has resulted in a collection of images that reveals the intimate collection of images that reveals the intimate collaboration between photographer and subject. His text traces the history of glamour photography from the 1920s to the present and discusses the changes that have made celebrity portraiture one of the most exciting chronicles of popular culture today. Filmographies of the celebrities and biographies of every photographer appearing in the book are included. Ricky Spears wrote a television and movie column for 'Details' magazine. Book has minor shelf wear. Dust jacket has slight crease at top of spine.

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Title

Shooting Stars: Contemporary Glamour Photography

Publisher

Stewart, Tabori, & Chang September 1992

Publication Date

1992

Language

English

ISBN 10

155670240X

ISBN 13

9781556702402

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Used - Good

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Photography - Collections - Glamour & Hollywood

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Here is the "New Hollywood Glamour" - a renaissance in the art of celebrity portraiture that pays homage to the Golden Age of Hollywood, while it redefines the leading edge of style.
These remarkable photographs were mostly produced for magazines, published only once - or not at all - and then filed away in photographers' archives. From these wonderfully rich archives, Ricky Spears, a co-founder of DETAILS magazine, put together this collection of the most captivating contemporary celebrity glamour photography.
Artists such as Mary Ellen Mark, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sylvia Plachy, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Bert Stern, and Timothy White have contributed seductive, sexy images of movie icons such as Jeff Bridges, Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Isabelle Huppert, Jodie Foster, Jessica Lange, and Winona Ryder. In all, 63 photographers share 153 color and black-and-white photographs, each an intimate collaboration between subject, artist, and camera.
In addition, SHOOTING STARS provides biographies of all the photographers and the most extensive filmographies of the stars ever published.
Together, these photographers and stars have helped to redefine the genre of glamour portraiture - and our very idea of glamour itself. SHOOTING STARS is a stunning permanent record of this fruitful collaboration.

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