Still Life: Hollywood Tableaux Photographs [Perfect Paperback]

Diane Keaton (Editor)

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Publication Date: November 1985

Still Life: Hollywood Tableaux Photographs

Product Details

• Perfect Paperback: 90 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Paper) (November 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671603876
• ISBN-13: 978-0671603878
• Product Dimensions: 11.7 x 11.7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,311,772 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stay still for stills, February 17, 2008

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This review is from: Still Life: Hollywood Tableaux Photographs (Perfect Paperback)

In the back of this book there's a very telling 1938 quote from William Eglinton, Chief of Camera and Stills for RKO: 'At the end of each scene, the director and his crew step aside for a brief moment and the still camera man poses the principals in the climax of that particular scene'. The sixty-two stills in the book are the best that Keaton and Heiferman selected from the many they looked at.

I liked the idea that the contents are roughly from the end of the Second World War to the early Sixties, a particularly glossy period for Hollywood and it shows in several of the stills showing sets. Many group shots are really frozen in time photos, looking like tableaus from a waxworks others look like 'candids' with the actors totally unaware of the camera.


I've had this book for some years and I still find it fascinating. The contents are just movie stills but present them in a large, square (twelve by twelve inches) beautifully designed and printed book with the use of a 200 screen on quality paper and the mundane becomes intriguing. Less is definitely more.

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