Phyfe Hal (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. MCCLELLAND BARCLAY, HAL PHYFE AND OTHERS (illustrator). VERY NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER WITH GOLD WHITE AND BROWN DESIGN AND PRINT. FROM LOWELL THOMAS ADVENTURE LIBRARY. NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, TIGHT AND CLEAN. Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveler, best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. Thomas was born in Woodington, Darke County, Ohio, to Harry and Harriet (Wagner) Thomas. His father was a doctor, his mother a teacher. In 1900, the family moved to the mining town of Victor, Colorado. Thomas worked there as a gold miner, a cook, and a reporter on the newspaper. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

Condition: Good. One black & white photo print, 8 x 10". Exotic Silver Age film director. From a collection of photograph portraits inscribed to Dr. Albert Rappaport, founder and director of San Francisco's Town Hall. Photographer's stamp in image lower left, and serial on reverse.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Photographs by Hal Phyfe & Harold McCracken (illustrator). First Edition. Orange pictorial endpapers Map HARLEM & BRONX, Photographs by Hal Phyfe & Harold McCracken , HB NODJ, 1931 on Title & Copyright pg, 1st edition, green cloth lettered in Orange HARDBACK HAS FADE DISCOLRATION, NO JACKET, Cover minor rub, wear scuff & tiny Chips Extremities, Spine Sunned, NearFINE-/VG-, NOJACKET, 217 pgs, TAIN & FADE TO BACK CVR.

Condition: Good. - sc A 14 inch high by 11 inch wide black & white gelatin silver photograph of the explorer Carveth Wells depicted in three-quarter profile from the waist up. Attired in a white shirt with rolled up sleeves, a pith helmet tilted at a rakish angle on his head, Carveth Wells glances over his right shoulder. The explorer's shadow is cast upon the white marbled background. The photographer's name "Hal Phyfe" is embossed in blind at bottom left and his credits are additionally stamped on the verso "This photograph must be credited to Hal Phyfe when published / 50 West 56" and the number "1188-C" is penned in black crayon. This original photograph was intended for publication as testified by editorial annotations and several crop marks penciled on the verso. The edges and corners are creased and there is some soiling to the margins with pinholes at the corners. There is a heavier horizontal crease along the bottom. A strong beautiful photograph from the estate of the lecture bureau manager James "Bim" Pond. The world traveler, explorer, author and radio commentator Carveth Wells was one of the most famous lecturers on the circuit, nearly the equal in popularity to Richard Halliburton and Lowell Thomas. A Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, he was also a member of the Circumnavigators Club, and the Adventurers and Explorers Clubs. As an engineer and railroad surveyor, he spent years in Malaysia and traveled the world. His books include: "Years in the Malay Jungle", "In Coldest Africa", "Let's Do The Mediterranean", "The Jungle Man and His Animals", etc. He was a popular radio broadcaster and documentary travel film-maker, even writing a book about the filming of his Cudahay-Massee expedition to the Ruwenzori.Hal Phyfe (1892-1968), was born in Nice, France to American expatriates. Initially trained as a sculptor and painter in Europe, he enlisted in World War I, specializing in aerial photography. He opened a photography studio in 1926, building his reputation for his theatrical portraits and became the principal photographer for Florenz Ziegfield of Ziegfield Follies fame during 1930-31. He is famous for his dictum that no smiles were allowed during sittings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Clear plastic DJ. Hal Phyfe (frontis photograph) (illustrator). [2],262, [4] pages. Illustrations. Includes poem Husband's Lament by Marjorie C. Divan. Both signed and inscribed by Vallee on the large paper limited edition page. The inscription reads: To D. P. Wooley with my best wishes, Rudy Vallee, December 1930. A black and white copyrighted photograph of Rudy Vallee by Hal Phyfe has been laid in (same image as the frontis illustration). The book is in a plastic sleeve. Cover has some wear and soiling. Vallée became the most prominent and, arguably, the first of a new style of popular singer, the crooner. Crooners had soft voices that were well suited to the intimacy of the medium of the radio. Vallée's trombone-like vocal phrasing would inspire later crooners such as Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, and Perry Como to model their voices on jazz instruments. Vallée also became what was perhaps the first complete example of the 20th century mass media pop star. Rudy Vallee was an American singer, actor, and radio host. He was one of the first modern pop stars of the teen idol type. In 1929, Vallée made his first feature film, The Vagabond Lover for RKO Radio. His first films were made to cash in on his singing popularity. While his initial performances were rather wooden, his acting greatly improved in the late 1930s and 1940s, and by the time he began working with Preston Sturges in the 1940s, he had become a successful comedic supporting player. He appeared opposite Claudette Colbert in Sturges's 1942 screwball comedy The Palm Beach Story. Other films in which he appeared include I Remember Mama, Unfaithfully Yours and The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer. In 1955, Vallée was featured in Gentlemen Marry Brunettes, co-starring Jane Russell, Alan Young, and Jeanne Crain. The production was filmed on location in Paris. The film was based on the Anita Loos novel that was a sequel to her acclaimed Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Gentlemen Marry Brunettes was popular throughout Europe at the time and was released in France as A Paris Pour les Quatre ("Paris for the Four"), and in Belgium as Tevieren Te Parijs. Vallée performed on Broadway as J.B. Biggley in the 1961 musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and reprised the role in the 1967 film version. He appeared in the 1960s Batman television show as the villain Lord Marmaduke Ffogg and in 1971 as a vindictive surgeon in the Night Gallery episode "Marmalade Wine". Hal Phyfe was trained as a sculptor in France and a painter in Italy, Hal Phyfe began pursuing photography an an enlistee in World War I. During the 1920s he built a reputation for his theatrical portraiture shot on commission for various magazines. He became the principal photographer for Florenz Ziegfeld during 1930-31. He became famous for his dictum that no smiles were allowed during sittings. Phyfe's notorious eccentricity of dress extended to wearing moccasins instead of shoes and dressing down in denim at debutante balls during that period when he was official photographer to High Society. As adept at portraying men as women, Phyfe produced some of the most dynamic male portraits of the late 1920s. He preferred not to portray performers in costume. A master of middle grays, his exhibition and portfolio prints of the late 1920s display exquisitely refined shading. During the late 1920s he indulged in the penchant among New York portraitists to vignette heads. There would be strong graphic intervention at the perimeters of the image, suggesting a drawing. In the 1930s he opted for a straighter style of portraiture, full body, often with the subject seated. His Society portraits of the 1930s are well posed and understated, suggesting refinement rather than ostentation. His popularity among Hollywood performers derives from his disinclination to overstate elegance. He signed original prints in red crayon in distinctive squared letters. His Hollywood portraits are signed on the negative in white. Signed limited Large Paper edition. Number 297 of 299.

20 cm x 25 cm. Excellent condition. Wonderfully rare autograph by one of America's most beloved actors of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

[S.l.], [Fox Film Corporation], [1931], fotografia di scena, mm. 270x210. Timbretto - Fox Film - e nota manoscritta al verso della foto: Janet Gaynor in "Delicious". Firmata in lastra in basso a sinistra. Ottime condizioni.