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Striking poses

Title
Striking poses / Richard Schickel ; photographs from the Kobal Collection ; picture editors, Simon Crocker, Carol Rubinstein.
Author
Schickel, Richard.
Publication
New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang : Distributed by Workman Pub., ©1987.

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Additional Authors
  • Crocker, Simon
  • Rubinstein, Carol
  • Kobal Collection.
Description
148 pages : color portraits; 29 cm
Summary
This compilation presents 160 full-color publicity photographs of movie stars created by the movie studios to evoke Hollywood reality but which are now seen as unwitting lapses into surrealism.
Subject
  • Kobal Collection
  • Kobal Collection
  • Motion picture actors and actresses > Portraits
  • Photograph collections > England > London
  • Motion picture actors and actresses
  • Photograph collections
  • England > London
Genre/Form
  • portraits.
  • Portraits
  • Portraits.
Contents
Introduction -- Cast of characters -- No biz like chauv biz -- The Zephyrs of War -- Portrait of a girl with a mirror -- Enigma variations -- Madcap -- Give them the simple life -- Spots of nature -- Portrait of a girl with one white shoe -- Hats on their belfries -- All alone by the telephone -- Striking posies -- Pairing in Paradise -- Portrait of a girl with two white boots -- An infinity of mirrorings -- Games people mimed -- The search for Jean Peters -- Hey, hey in the hayloft -- We like ikons -- Portrait of a girl with two red wedgies and skis -- Acknowledgements and credits.
ISBN
  • 0941434974
  • 9780941434973
LCCN
86023187
OCLC
  • ocm14718805
  • 14718805
  • SCSB-1185427
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library