Film Journal
by Eve Arnold
(0 vote)Average rating:
| 0 | rating |  = We can do without |
| 0 | rating |  = Good book |
| 0 | rating |  = Excellent book |
| 0 | rating |  = Unique / a reference |
Your rating: -
Book Presentation:
From American photojournalist Eve Arnold, an intimate and candid look behind the scenes of some of the greatest movies ever made.
In between her documentary photography, Eve Arnold spent almost fifty years photographing movie stars on location. From 1959, beginning with Joan Crawford's last major film, The Best of Everything, and ending in 1984 with Steaming, Joseph Losey's final picture, she worked behind the scenes on forty films, including The Misfits and Alien, capturing such legends as Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Marilyn Monroe, Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, Isabella Rossellini, Marlon Brando and Anjelica Huston.
Film Journal is a collection of these images, over 120 photographs in all, along with the notes and impressions made by Arnold during the shoots. As her camera revealed the personalities beneath the stars, Arnold also became privy to their personal lives. In Film Journal she writes memorably about the tensions and dramas on the film set, of Crawford sneaking in vodka in a Pepsi cooler, Dietrich recounting her night with JFK.
With eighty previously unpublished photographs and including many old favorites, Film Journal is a classic from one of the twentieth century's most distinguished photographers.
About the Author:
Born in Philadelphia into a Russian immigrant family, Eve Arnold studied medicine before changing to photography studies in New York in 1947. In 1951 she became the first woman to work for the celebrated Magnum Photos agency. A friend and protegee of the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, Arnold is known equally for her photo-essays on peoples and cultures and her sensitive portraits of both celebrities and unknown subjects. Her work has appeared in Life magazine and The Sunday Times, among many others.
> From the same author:
> On a related topic:
Hollywood at Play (2017)
The Lives of the Stars Between Takes
Back
