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Hollywood Portraits Paperback – October 1, 2000

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From the innocent allure of Audrey Hepburn and the sensuous poses of Marilyn Monroe to the macho charisma of Marlon Brando and the cool sophistication of Humphrey Bogart, this fabulous, inspirational book of star photographs provides classic portrait styles and detailed directions on how to set up, light, and shoot each photo. Step-by-step instructions reveal the techniques used by top-notch Hollywood photographers for their glittering glamour portraits of the 1920s through the 1950s. Diagrams and additional step-by-step instructions give readers the information needed to create classic Hollywood-style portraits of their own. Included are sections on equipment, processing, lighting, and modern-day equivalents, plus a decade-by-decade gallery featuring vintage portraits of the stars.

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Amphoto Books
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October 1, 2000
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8.6 x 0.4 x 11.05 inches
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0817440208
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978-0817440206
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Roger Hicks, the author of Perfect Exposure, Learning to Light, Quality in Photography, and more than thirty other books on photography, lives in England. Christopher Nisperos, a professional photographer living in Paris who has studied movie-lighting techniques extensively, specializes in Hollywood-style portraits.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amphoto Books; 1st edition (October 1, 2000)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 144 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0817440208
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0817440206
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.6 x 0.4 x 11.05 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,038,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #943 in Photography Reference (Books)
- #1,029 in Portrait Photography
- #1,510 in Photography History

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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 27, 2022

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The lighting maps in a studio setting helped me so much through the course I had for commercial photography. In a world where everything is overly lit and even the movies don't want the audience's eye to miss everything since our media is all in HD...it's refreshing to leave a little in mystery. To find that deep noir beauty and truly let the mind do some of the work.

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Excelente entrega

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 22, 2021

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Excelente embalaje. Vino cubierto de papel encima y tras eso a pesar de ser segunda vino forrado con un plástico protector.
Y que se diga de las imágenes interiores. Bellísimas

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Crystal

Love old Hollywood portraits. Book of photographs to get me inspired to do my versions.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 2, 2018

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I love those old Hollywood style portraits and purchased this book to look at the pictures have them as inspiration. We can't reproduce these portraits exactly as the type of lighting and cameras used are different from the mostly digital world of today's photography but it does inspire one to use lighting in dramatic and seductive ways. I want to shoot my versions of some of these portraits and appreciated some of the analysis of the lighting used.

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Good Guide for Lighting Analysis

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 28, 2011

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This book is proving to be a good source for learning to look a photo and figure out how it was lit. Each photograh is shown accompanied by a sketch of the lighting arrangement. Of course, the lighting is derived from the finished photo since these photographers are, sad,y, long gone. The author, though, takes care, in the text, to explain the reasoning behind the sketch. If you are interested in making photographs in this style, then I recommend the three books by Kobal (also available on Amazon and very inexpensive): "Movie Star Portraits of the Forties", "Film-Star Portaits of the Fifties", and "Hollywood Glamor Portraits". With this book and the others on hand, you can pick your favorite poses and apply the lessons learned in this volume to arrive at a reasonable starting point for your own lighting setup.

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Classic Hollywood Portraiture

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 11, 2007

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This book, by Roger Hicks, was good in its way. Having recently been required to try to reproduce the style of Hurrell/Bull, I did find it useful. The photographs were well reproduced and the descriptive material, particularly as regards history, was good. I did find it a bit confusing with "camera right" and "subject right" being thrown in willy-nilly. You would think that this would be self explanatory. However, combined with the illustrative drawings which looked at the set from different angles I would often get mixed up as to which light went where.

I am just a little thick, perhaps.

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True treasure!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 8, 2019

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Portrait photographers and fans of classic movies will swoon. Provides detailed lighting setups and many insights for photographers, plus some rarely shared stories of stars, studios, and the photographers themselves. Very grateful for the fine work of the authors, and the chance to buy a gem that should still be in print!

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The best starting place for the portrait

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 28, 2011

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Hollywood Portraits, Classic Shots and How to Take Them is a great tool in your search for better portraits. I have read some reviews that the diagrams are not needed, but as the title of this book indicates this is all about how you can take great portraits too. Yes, you will eventually be able to step away from those instructions and do your own lighting, but for starters there is NOTHING better. I highly recommend this book. Hollywood Portraits

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Could have been better

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I find this book interesting and helpful. One thing though that bothers me is that I think it could have been better if they would have tried their own advice and recreated a couple of the photos using their suggested set-ups. They could have then included these photos. The authors offer this book as a guide for others to do that without demonstrating how it worked for them - I think it would have made a good book better.

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chickwit

Great lighting guide

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 8, 2019

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Brilliant book full on background information on the star and how it may have been taken in times gone by using HOT LIGHTS. the book then shows how they would recreate the shot giveninformationon the set up. A very good book.

ChrisD

Worth every penny.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 10, 2018

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This book is an absolute delight. Picture by picture it gives the historical back ground an explanation of how the authors believe the lighting was set up. Leaving the reader equipped to reproduce the set up.

MR G P BRYANS

Good book on the subject

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 10, 2019

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God informative book on the subject of classic Hollywood portrait lighting.

Hans Couckuyt

Completely answers my request

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 23, 2013

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If you are into this kind of photography, and you would like to make similar pictures, then this book is a huge leap forward.

Nils Pickert

Klassische Bilder und rekonstuierte Lichtsetzung

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on May 4, 2013

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Das Buch erläutert anhand klassischer Hollywood Portraits wie sie entstanden sind, speziell wie die Lichtsetzung für diese Portraits wahrscheinlich gewesen ist. Zusätzlich bietet es amüsante Zusatzinfos zu den dargestellten Stars und Sternchen. Auch wenn man keine Hollywood-Portraits machen will, ist es auch interessant zu sehen, wie Lichtsituationen rekonstruiert werden können.

Um die Portraits nachzustellen, sollte man allerdings schon etwas Studio-Erfahrung haben, die Lichtsetzungen sind nicht einfach im Heimstudio nachzustellen.

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