Dust jacket notes: "Photographer Mark A. Vieira has opened his personal collection of movie stills from Hollywood's Golden Era to yield this stunning volume. With over 375 examples of the rich and luminescent work produced by the steady hands and flawless instinct of such great photographers as George Hurrell, Clarence Sinclair Bull, Otto Dyar, Ernest A. Bachrach, William Walling, David Abel, and Lee Garmes, Hollywood Legends offers readers the opportunity to study the varied style of these artists side by side. While the exquisite photographs speak volumes, Mr. Vieira's insightful commentary on the movies, camera and lighting techniques, and Hollywood history make this book a joy to read. Film buffs will find many familiar faces in these publicity photographs and scene stills taken during the heyday of the big studios such as Paramount, MGM, RKO, and Universal. The great stars are all here, including mesmerizing images of Gable, Bogie, Dietrich, Crawford, Bacall, Cagney, Davis, Garbo, Hepburn, Grant, Cooper, and many more. Hollywood Legends captures the mood and the glamour of the best years of Hollywood. This sophisticated volume is a must for any lover of film history."
Mark A. Vieira was born in Oakland, California on October 28, 1950. He is a filmmaker, photographer, and writer specializing in the history of Hollywood. He makes portraits in George Hurrell's original studio in the historic Granada Buildings with Hurrell's own Verito lens. Mark celebrates his fortieth anniversary as a professional photographer in October 2009.
He has lectured at the University of Southern California, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Universal Studios, the University of California Los Angeles, the Hollywood Museum in the Max Factor Building, the Hollywood Heritage Museum, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, the Rafael Film Center in San Rafael, and the Balboa Theatre in San Francisco. He has appeared on camera in Photoplay Productions' "Garbo," TimeLine's "Complicated Women," Playboy's "Sex at 24 Frames per Second," Twentieth Century-Fox Home Video featurettes on Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, Warner Home Video's "Thou Shalt Not," Universal's "Forbidden Film," and on CBS Sunday Morning.
