Dennis Feldman: Hollywood Boulevard: 1969-1972 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0986204501 ISBN 13: 9780986204500

Publisher: Circle of Fire, 2015

Synopsis

For three years, Dennis Feldman (born 1946) repeatedly walked an eight-block stretch from Hollywood and Vine to the Chinese Theater, called the Walk of Fame, where people flocked to gaze at a sidewalk full of terrazzo stars inlaid with the names of famous (and no longer famous) entertainers. He became obsessed with photographing the characters that gathered there, drawn to the world of stardom, parading their self-made identities--macho and gay, masculine and feminine, biker and hippy--modeled after American archetypes molded by the entertainment industry and the social revolution of the 1960s. Hollywood Boulevard compiles the photographer's large-format, black-and-white portraits into a painfully human character study of social identity and performance.

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Review:

My favorite photos in Hollywood Boulevard are the ones that don't fit neatly into the time, the place, or the glib narrative of Hollywood, but instead are wildly individual: pictures of waiting, wandering, loitering with friends. (Erin Sheehy n + 1)

One of fifty books nominated for best book cover 2015 - Design Observer Group (longest continuous design competition in the United States)

It's a time capsule of the long-ago outlandish. (Ian Epstein New York Magazine)

About this edition

• Publisher: Circle of Fire
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0986204501
• ISBN 13: 9780986204500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 84