KOBAL, JOHN - The Art of the Great Hollywood Portrait Photographers, 1925-1940

NY, Alfred A. Knopf. 1980, 1st. (ISBN: 0394428625). Hard, 4to. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Knopf, 1980, first printing. 4to. 9 1/2" x 12 1/4", ix+291pp. illustrated with 150 photo portraits. Black cloth with gilt titles. "John Kobal, one of the world's leading film archivists, has during the last twenty years discovered, collected, and studied a photographic treasure overlooked by the Hollywood for which it was created: the negatives and original prints of these remarkable 'glamour photographs' that were made in the 1920s and 1930s. Their function was publicity.. in order to set in the minds of the audience (in accordance with the studio's strategy of the moment) the image of the Star." Fine in near fine dust jacket with a few short, closed edge tears. Fine/Near Fine.

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