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The
Art of Hollywood Glamour
MARLENE DIETRICH PORTRAITS
Mark A. Vieira
Francis Coiro, Editor
Explore the evolution of the Dietrich image, from her first Hollywood sitting through the end of the studio era as film historian and photographer Mark A. Vieira illuminates one of the 20th Century's most compelling style icons in a visual chronology of Marlene Dietrich's film career.
From Edition Iconix, dedicated to preserving the art of popular culture.
From the PrefaceThe history of Hollywood sparkles with overnight success stories. This chorus girl or that truck driver became a star because he or she possessed a magic “something.” It might be a symmetrical face, a tapered physique, a prepossessing personality—or none of the above. Whatever it was, it had to please an unfeeling machine known as a camera. And yet this machine made a product for the most subjective consumer imaginable, the movie audience.
None of this was on the mind of an aspiring actress when she stepped into a Berlin photo booth in 1926. Marlene Dietrich merely wanted some narcissistic entertainment when she put a coin into a slot and waited for an automatic camera to make four images of her.
She got the images, and she got something else: a revelation. She saw what light can do to a human face. A single light, placed high above her, transformed her physiognomy from that of an attractive girl to that of a star. Yet it would be four years before a photographer applied this discovery to her career. What he did with this discovery—and this woman’s face—is the subject of this monograph.
The Art of Hollywood Glamour
MARLENE DIETRICH PORTRAITS
Mark A. Vieira
Francis Coiro, EditorEdition Iconix
Paperback
138 pages
ISBN-10: 0984597204