Jazz Age Beauties: The Lost Collection of Ziegfeld Photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston - Couverture rigide

Hudovernik, Robert

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ISBN 10 : 0789313812 ISBN 13 : 9780789313812

Editeur : Universe, 2021

Synopsis

Jazz Age Beauties Celebrates the Ziegfeld Follies girls with portraits and publicity stills by photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston. This work has more than 100 vintage photographs of Broadway starlets and silent film actresses. It is an ode to an era of America's history. It is also a document of one of America's first star makers, Alfred Cheney Johnston.

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Despite Prohibition, the '20s was the decade of jazz, flappers and hip flasks. While some took their vote and joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Movement, others, well, took liberties. Compiled here for the first time are more than 200 publicity stills and photos of some of America's first "It" girls—the silent film-era starlets who paved the way for the cacophony of Monroes and Madonnas to follow. Accompanying these iconic images are the stories behind them, including accounts from surviving Ziegfeld Girls, as well as ads featuring them that helped perpetuate the allure of It girl glamour. When rare and striking portraits of these women surfaced on the internet in 1995, author Robert Hudovernik began researching their source. What he discovered was the work of one of the first "star makers" identified most with the Ziegfeld Follies, Alfred Cheney Johnston. Johnston, a member of New York's famous Algonquin Round Table who photographed such celebrities as Mary Pickford, Fanny Brice, the Gish Sisters, and Louise Brooks, fell out of the spotlight with the demise of the revue. A sumptuous snapshot of an era, this book is also a look at the work of this "lost" photographer.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Robert Hudovernik is a freelance writer, photographer and scriptwriter. He wrote and produced a documentary funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities entitled Circus Echoes on the golden age of circus entertainment during the Art Deco era.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Universe
• Date d'édition: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0789313812
• ISBN 13: 9780789313812
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256